The rise and fall of behaviorism
| Autor: | Sander Verhaegh, Jan Engelen, Michiel Braat, Ties van Gemert |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Language, Communication and Cognition, Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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History
Watson Experimental psychology Cocitation analysis Received view of theories 06 humanities and the arts PsycINFO Behaviorism Bibliometrics American psychology Epistemology Bibliometric mapping 060105 history of science technology & medicine History of psychology 0601 history and archaeology Narrative Co-occurrence analysis General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | History of Psychology, 23(3), 252-280. American Psychological Association |
| ISSN: | 1093-4510 |
| Popis: | The history of 20th-century American psychology is often depicted as a history of the rise and fall of behaviorism. Although historians disagree about the theoretical and social factors that have contributed to the development of experimental psychology, there is widespread consensus about the growing and (later) declining influence of behaviorism between approximately 1920 and 1970. Because such wide-scope claims about the development of American psychology are typically based on small and unrepresentative samples of historical data, however, the question arises to what extent the received view is justified. This article aims to answer this question in two ways. First, we use advanced scientometric tools (e.g., bibliometric mapping, cocitation analysis, and term co-occurrence analysis) to quantitatively analyze the metadata of 119,278 articles published in American journals between 1920 and 1970. We reconstruct the development and structure of American psychology using cocitation and co-occurrence networks and argue that the standard story needs reappraising. Second, we argue that the question whether behaviorism was the "dominant" school of American psychology is historically misleading to begin with. Using the results of our bibliometric analyses, we argue that questions about the development of American psychology deserve more fine-grained answers. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved). |
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