The APA did not found "our" Psych Review. APA did not purchase it until the 1920s. It was founded by Baldwin & Cattell in 1894, mainly because Hall only published people connected with his programs at Johns Hopkins and Clark in his American Journal.
Cattell would go in to own a lot if journals, including Science, so he probably knew if the earlier Psych Review's prior existence. He may have been trying to re-appropriate the term from the psychical researchers. Chris ----- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 Canada [email protected] On Feb 12, 2013, at 8:45 AM, MiguelRoig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > From: "Mike Palij" <[email protected]> > To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" > <[email protected]> > Cc: "Michael Palij" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 5:41:17 PM > Subject: Re: [tips] The "Other" Psychological Review > > >I'm not surprised that there were journals both in the U.S. and elsewhere > that focused on spiritualism, psychic phenomena, the "mind-cure", and > the various religious movement that developed in the 19th century > (e.g., Christian Science; see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Science ) > rather, I'm surprised that the APA would use "Psychological Review" as > a title for one of its journals given how recent the publication of the > spiritualist version was. Checking the online catalog for the British > Library, they have volumes 1-5, and issues 1-2 of volume 6, spanning > 1878-1883. The new Psych Review begin in 1894 or about a decade > later. I doubt that Cattell would not know about the old PR given that > he worked in Wundt's lab in Leipzig during 1883-1886 and would > have been exposed to European publications both in English and > other languages. As Alvarado points out in the first publication below, > Cattell was antagonistic toward spiritualism and psychic phenomena. > One wonders if Cattell was being supremely ironic or just having a > joke in naming what would be come one of the premier journals > in experimental psychology that denied supernaturalism after a > journal that had promoted it. Imagine the Skeptical Inquirer > going broke and being bought out by a parapsychological group > to publish its articles in. > > Chris Green mentioned G. Stanley Hall's dealings with supporters of psychical > research in his efforts to establish the American Journal of Psychology. Coon > (1992) discusses the wide popular appeal of spiritualism toward the latter > half of the 19th century and the confusion in terminology regarding the terms > 'psychical' and 'psychological'. Consider the following quotes from Coon: > > "Psychology had a critical problem in the process of its professionalization > and conceptualization, however. It was > haunted by a public and by some members of its own ranks who thought that the > most interesting questions > about the mind concerned not the range of perception and the timing of > thought, but whether or not people > could communicate with each other by direct thought transference, whether > gifted individuals could foretell the > future, or whether the living could communicate with the dead. When people > began to hear and read about the > "New Psychology" in the popular and literary magazines of the late 19th > century, they turned to this new breed of > mental experts to answer their innermost questions about the more mysterious > powers of the mind and spirit." (pg. 145). > > A little later, she writes: > > "The problem was that much of psychology's popular appeal lay in precisely > those topics of its possible subject > matter that many psychologists wanted to shed as pseudoscience—topics such as > mental telepathy, clairvoyance, > and spiritistic communication with the dead. Psychologists already had enough > trouble trying to prove their > investigations of normal mental phenomena were scientific and not subjective > (Burnham, 1987; Coon, in press; > Danziger, 1990). Investigating the supernatural and supernormal seemed to > many psychologists simply to be > courting disaster for the budding discipline" (pg. 145). > > "To add to the confusion, the term psychological was occasionally used to > refer specifically to paranormal phenomena. In 1881, Wundt named his journal > Psychologische Studien but changed the name within months to > Philosophische Studien, most likely because there was already a journal of > spiritism and parapsychology published > under the former name (Bringmann, Bringmann, & Ungerer, 1980). Ten years > before the founding in 1893 of the > American experimental psychology journal, the Psychological Review, a British > Psychological Review existed as > a "journal of spiritualism." (pp 145-146). > > -------- > > Earlier I wrote: > > "As the de factor historian of parapsychology ..." > > 'de factor'? Oy vey!!! I must have been thinking of 'de factor analysis'. ;-) > > Miguel > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=23636 > (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) > or send a blank email to > leave-23636-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > > > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=23641 or send a blank email to leave-23641-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
