List of important publications in psychology
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This is a list of important publications in psychology, organized by field.
Some reasons why a particular publication might be regarded as important:
- Topic creator – A publication that created a new topic
- Breakthrough – A publication that changed scientific knowledge significantly
- Introduction – A publication that is a good introduction or survey of a topic
- Influence – A publication which has significantly influenced the world
- Latest and greatest – The current most advanced result in a topic
[edit] Introducing Psychology
[edit] Introducing Psychology
- { Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.}
- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Psychology, 3rd edition. 2006. Penguin Books, U.S.A.
- Introducing psychology to students and general public.
- Nigel Benson
- Introducing Psychology, 1998. Totem/Icon Books.
Description: Introduction to psychology for general public and students.
Importance: Popular, International best-selling, 14 languages
[edit] Principles of Psychology
- William James
- Principles of Psychology, 1890.
- Online version
Description: This monumental text can be view as the beginning of psychology.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy
[edit] The Interpretation of Dreams
- Sigmund Freud
- The Interpretation of Dreams, 1900.
- Online version
Description: Dream interpretation became a part of psychoanalysis due to this seminal work.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis
Description: Discussion of slips, transference, and dream analysis. Includes classic case studies.
Importance: Primary source of topic creator
[edit] Personality
[edit] A Theory of Human Motivation
- Abraham Maslow
- Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. (1943)
- Online version
Description: In this paper the Maslow's hierarchy of needs was described.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Behaviorism
[edit] Psychology as the behaviorist views it
- John B. Watson
- Psychological Review, 20, pp. 158-177.
- Online version
Description: With his behaviorism, Watson put the emphasis on external behaviour of people and their reactions on given situations, rather than the internal, mental state of those people. In his opinion, the analysis of behaviours and reactions was the only objective method to get insight in the human actions.
Importance: Topic creator, Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Science and Human Behavior
- B.F. Skinner
- Published in 1953
- Online version
Description: Skinner's seminal textbook in which he covers a broad sweep of subjects not usually covered. Psychotherapy, self-control, thinking and other topics are covered here. Written as part of a publishing deal to get his utopian fiction novel published it has proven to be an enduring and excellent Radical Behaviorist treatment of the person and society.
Importance: Skinner's Radical Behaviorism is, for all intents and purposes, the behaviorism. Pavlovian behaviorism has been absorbed into and obliterated by other theories of behavior including Radical Behaviorism.
[edit] Cognitivism
- Alan Turing (1950) "Computing machinery and intelligence". Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, October 1950, pp. 433-460. eprint
- Jerry Fodor (1975) The Language of thought
- Zenon Pylyshyn (1984) Computation and Cognition
- Stevan Harnad (1994) Computation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't. Minds and Machines 4: 379-390.
[edit] Functionalism
[edit] Gestalt psychology
[edit] Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement
- Max Wertheimer
- Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement, 1912.
Description: Considered the founding article for Gestalt psychology. The article described the Phi phenomenon.
Importance:
[edit] The Gestalt Approach & Eye Witness to Therapy
- Fritz Perls, MD, PhD
- 1973.
Description: Perls final and most complete formulation of gestalt psychology and therapy.
Importance: Final work of Perls, one of the fields earliest and most prolific authors.
[edit] Humanistic psychology
[edit] Phenomenology
- Medard Boss, Existential Foundations of Medicine and Psychology (Jason Aronson, 1984; ISBN 1-56821-420-0)
- Medard Boss, Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (Da Capo Pr, 1982; ISBN 0-306-79708-9)
- Medard Boss, The Analysis of Dreams (Philosophical Library, 1958)
- Amedeo Giorgi, Psychology as a Human Science (Harper & Row, 1970)
- R.D. Laing, The Divided Self (Penguin, 1965)
- Robert D. Romanyshyn, Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life (Trivium, 2001)
- Ernesto Spinelli, The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology (Sage, 2nd Edition, 2005)
- Erwin Straus, Man, Time and World (Humanities Press, 1982)
- Erwin Straus, The Primary World of the Senses (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
- Jan Hendrik van den Berg, A Different Existence (Duquesne University Press, 1973)
[edit] Structuralism
[edit] Cognitive psychology
- Keith Holyoak and Robert Morrison
- The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning (2005). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-53101-2
Description: A recent comprehensive collection of survey chapters on topics in higher cognition.
[edit] Evolution and psychology
[edit] Genetic Psychology
Baldwin, J. M. (1896). A New Factor in Evolution. The American Naturalist, 30(354), 441-451.
Piaget, J. (1979). Behaviour and Evolution (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1976)
Simpson, G. G. (1953). The Baldwin Effect. Evolution, 7(2), 110-117.
Weber, B. H. & Depew, D. J. (Eds.). (2003). Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: Bradford/MIT Press.
[edit] Evolutionary Psychology
(1992). The Adapted Mind. NY: Oxford University Press.
- Buss, D.M.(2004).Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind.Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
[edit] Evolutionary developmental psychology
- Bjorklund, D.F., & Pellegrini, A.D. (2002). The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
- Burgess, R. L. & MacDonald (Eds.) (2004). Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Ellis, B.J., & Bjorklund, D.F. (Eds.) (2005). Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development . New York: Guilford Press.
[edit] Evolutionary educational psychology
- Geary, D. C. (2002). Principles of evolutionary educational psychology. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 317-345.
- Geary, D. C. (2005). Folk knowledge and academic learning. In B. J. Ellis & D. F. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind (pp. 493-519). New York: Guilford Publications.
[edit] Clinical psychology
- Emil Kraepelin
- "Textbook" of Psychiatry, 1893
Description: This publication was the foundation of the classification systems used in today's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Importance:
[edit] Developmental psychology
Baldwin, J. M. (1894). Mental development in the child and the race. New York: Macmillan.
Beilin, H. (1992). Piaget's Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Developmental Psychology, 28(2), 191-204.
Bringuier, J.-C. (Ed.). (1980). Conversations with Jean Piaget. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1977)
Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive Evolution: Origins and Development of Piaget’s Thought. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge Press.
Gruber, H. E. & Vonèche, J. J. (Eds.). (1993). The Essential Piaget: An Interpretive Reference and Guide (2nd ed.). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
Lourenço, O. & Machado, A. (1996). In Defense of Piaget's Theory: A Reply to 10 Common Criticisms. Psychological Review, 103(1), 143-164.
Piaget, J. (1952). The Origins of Intelligence in Children (M. Cook, Trans. 2nd ed.). New York: International Universities Press. (Original work published 1936)
Piaget, J. (1985). The Equilibration of Cognitive Structures: The Central Problem of Intellectual Development (T. Brown & K. J. Thampy, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1975)
Siegler, R. S. (1996). Emerging Minds: The Process of Change in Children's Thinking. New York: Oxford University Press.
[edit] Educational psychology
Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., & Pelletier, R. (1995). Cognitive tutors: Lessons learned. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 167-207.
Bandura, A. (1993). Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning. Educational psychologist, 28, 117-148.
Cronbach, L. J. (1957). The two disciplines of scientific psychology. American Psychologist, 12, 671-684.
Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.
Mayer, R. E. (1997). Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions? Educational Psychologist, 32, 1-19.
Palincsar, A. S. (1998). Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345-375.
Skinner, B. F. (1958). Teaching Machines. Science, 128(3330), 969-977.
Spearman, Charles. (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured. American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
Sweller, J., van Merrienboer, J. J., & Paas, F. G. (1998). Cognitive architecture and instructional design. Educational Psychology Review, 10, 251-296.
Terman, Lewis M. (1916). The uses of intelligence tests. From The measurement of intelligence (chapter 1). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
Thorndike, Edward L. (1910). The contribution of psychology to education. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1, 5-12.
Thurstone, L. L. (1934). The vectors of mind. Psychological Review, 41, 1-32.
[edit] Forensic psychology
[edit] Forensic Psychology
- Alan M. Goldstein
- Forensic Psychology, 2003
- ISBN 0-471-61920-5
Description: 47 forensic psychologists cover the theory and practice of forensic psychology in both civil and criminal litigation.
Importance: Introduction
[edit] On the Witness Stand
- Hugo Münsterberg
- On the Witness Stand, 1908.
Description: Considered the first publication in applying psychology to legal matters. Among the topics discussed are reliability of witnesses' testimony and memory, lie detection and interrogation methods on suspects of crime.
Importance:
[edit] Industrial and organizational psychology
[edit] Journals
- The Journal of Applied Psychology
- Personnel Psychology
- Academy of Management Journal
- Academy of Management Review
- The Journal of Organizational Behavior
- The Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- The Journal of Vocational Behavior
- Administrative Science Quarterly
- International Journal of Selection and Assessment
[edit] Neuropsychology
The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology by Cooper, Bloom, Roth.
Oxford University Press, 1996 ISBN 0-19-510399-8
Description I found this complicated book incredibly easy to read. The 2nd Chapter, Cellular Foundations of Neuropharmacology, explained the nature of the nervous system to me in just one page, like I had never known about it before. And, there doesn't seem to be a boring page in the book.
Importance As yet unknown, this is a very new field.
I will have to leave it for someone with more expertise to judge the value of this science pearl.
[edit] Social psychology
Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations
Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday.
Description: With this book, Gordon Allport put forth one of the most influential theories of prejudice reduction, known as the Contact Hypothesis. The basic idea behind the Contact Hypothesis is that increasing contact between members of different groups is the foundation for reducing intergroup hostility. This book is important for many other reasons as well, and is recommended reading for anyone interested in the areas of prejudice and discrimination.
Importance: Breakthrough, Influence
Tajfel, H., & Turner, J.C. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W.G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33-47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Description: This is a classic paper on Social Identity Theory (SIT). SIT is one of the most prominent and influential theories concerning intergroup relations and has spawned massive amounts of research. The main point behind SIT is that the social context is the key factor shaping how different social groups are perceived and treated.
Importance: Breakthrough, Influence
[edit] Perceptual Psychology
Gustav Fecher. ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOPHYSICS. Sections VII and XVI.
Importance : Foundation of the field of psychophysics.
Online version available : http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Fechner/
[edit] Health psychology
[edit] Critical psychology
[edit] Post-cognivitist psychology
[edit] See also
- Category:Important publication in psychology
- List of publications on evolution and human behavior
- List of publications in science
- Evolutionary psychology [1]
