ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

Advances in Psychological Science ›› 2008, Vol. 16 ›› Issue (6): 833-843.

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What Psychology Can Learn from Its History?

Kurt Pawlik   

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Hamburg, Germany
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2008-11-15 Published:2008-11-15
  • Contact: Kurt Pawlik

Abstract: The paper looks into regularities in the history of psychology as a science and as a profession that may stand generalization beyond conditions and contexts. Lacking a better term they are referred to as “lessons” to be deduced from history. As to the first, the history of psychology as a science, six such regularities are proposed: (i) dual status of psychology as a scientific discipline and a “bridge” science due, integrating biological, social and cultural methods; (ii) indispensability of empiricism as methodological guideline; (iii) cross-over utility of results from basic and applied research; (iv) need of alternative heuristic scales; (v) compatibility of universality and indigenization; and (vi) disciplinary strength of psychology in scientific development. Another additional 3 regularities are proposed from a examination of psychology’s history as a profession: (i) rapidity of professionalization; (ii) need of two-way transfer between academia and practice; and (iii) lessons to be learned from cross-disciplinary give and take of expertise

Key words: psychology, history, lesson

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