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The articles authored by Flis and van Eck (2018) and by Burman (2018) serve as fine examples of the ways in which digital historical methods can illuminate aspects of psychology's past that would probably not be possible otherwise. This success, however, presents no reason to think that digital history is some kind of threat to conventional historiography or that former aims to replace the latter. The two can work complementarily--so closely, in fact, that it sometimes becomes difficult to know which of the two one is practicing at any given moment. Multiple skill sets need not define the historian as being a particular "kind": They just enable any historian to do his or her work more completely than before. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Recent research has used networks of scholarly journal articles to investigate the intellectual structure of the discipline of psychology from the later 1880s to the early 1920s. Here, instead, we examined the networks of philosophical journals that were closely aligned with psychology-The Monist, Philosophical Review, and The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods-between 1890 and 1913. We discovered that, although the first 2 of these journals published a great deal of psychologically relevant material up to 1903, material of that sort seemed to evaporate after the launch of the third journal in 1904. It was not so much that material migrated from the old journals to the new one. It was rather that the new journal was able to attract new trends in American philosophical psychology, while interest in traditional approaches seemed to dry up. The result was that psychology moved into a new and expansive era, while America philosophy was left somewhat destabilized as it attempted to reconfigure its disciplinary identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the role that digital approaches to the history of psychology are likely to play in the near future. A tentative hierarchy of digital methods is proposed. A few examples are briefly described: a digital repository, a simple visualization using ready-made online database and tools, and more complex visualizations requiring the assembly of the database and, possibly, the analytic tools by the researcher. The relationship of digital history to the old "New Economic History" (Cliometrics) is considered. The question of whether digital history and traditional history need be at odds or, instead, might complement each other is woven throughout. The rapidly expanding territory of digital humanistic research outside of psychology is briefly discussed. Finally, the challenging current employment trends in history and the humanities more broadly are considered, along with the role that digital skills might play in mitigating those factors for prospective academic workers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the structure of early American Psychology from 1894 until 1908 based on various articles published in the journal "Psychological Review". Other topics mentioned in this article include the role of vocabulary, the role of editorship, and the role of the publishing industry.

The article, which was originally published online on July 1, 2013, presents the results of an exploratory digital analysis of the contents of the psychological journals "American Journal of Psychology" (AJP) and "Pedagogical Seminary" (PS) founded by U.S. psychologist Granville Stanley Hall. It discusses whether Hall's goals for the periodicals were met, the methodologies employed by contributors to the journals, and the diversity of research subjects published by the journals.

The article discusses the 1880 psychology research paper of the German scientists Wilhelm Wundt and Ludwig Lange. An overview is given of the paper and its discoveries regarding physiological and psychological reactions to stimulus. Details are given noting the new translation of the paper published in English on the website psychclassics.yorku.ca/LangeL/NewExperiments.pdf.

The article discusses early American psychology. Topics discussed include article published in periodical "Psychological Review", psychology journals and history of psychology. Other topics such as psychological specialties, theoretical psychology and American Psychological Association are also discussed.