A Quantitative Analysis of the Presidential Addresses of the American Psychological Association: 1892-1990

Corroboration.

“…In their recent empirical analysis in this journal, Robins, Gosling, and Craik (Febmary 1999) found certain trends in mainstream psychology, dating from 1950 to the present, regarding the status of four schools or systems of psychology: psy-choanalysis, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. Their findings bear a striking similarity to an analysis of trends in psychology, dating from 1892 to 1990, that [ conducted, despite the differences in our sources of psychological literature (Gibson, 1993a(Gibson, , 1993b(Gibson, , 1994.…”