Keyword frequencies in anglophone psychology

Benjafield, John G.

doi:10.1007/s11192-019-03021-2

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“…All vocabularies were either updated or created in 2019. In addition, our sample includes multiword sequences (Ellis and Ogden 2017 , p. 605; Benjafield 2019a , p. 1053) as well as single words. For example, condensed matter is a multiword in both astronomy and physics.…”

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“…For purposes of the present study, earlier versions of the vocabularies of biology, chemistry, computing, linguistics, mathematics, philosophy, physics, and psychology from Benjafield (2012Benjafield ( , 2013Benjafield ( , 2014Benjafield ( , 2016Benjafield ( , 2019a were updated using the OED Online (2020). The vocabularies of astronomy, economics, political science, and sociology were newly assembled for this study, also using the OED Online (2020).…”

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Vocabulary sharing among subjects belonging to the hierarchy of sciences

Benjafield

2020

Scientometrics

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To what extent do the vocabularies of mathematics, computing, astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology, economics, political science, philosophy, and linguistics overlap? To explore this question, samples of the anglophone vocabularies of these subjects were created using the Oxford English Dictionary (Benjafield in Scientometrics 118:1051–1064, 2019. 10.1007/s11192-019-03021-2). The first part of this study compared the vocabularies of the five empirical members of Comte’s hierarchy of the sciences (HoS) plus psychology (i.e., astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, sociology). The results were generally consistent with the existence of an empirical HoS. For example, each subject shared its vocabulary the most with another subject adjacent to it in the hierarchy (i.e., astronomy with physics, physics with chemistry, biology with chemistry, psychology with biology, sociology with psychology). The second part of this study examined patterns of sharing between mathematics, computing, economics, political science, philosophy, linguistics and the six members of the empirical HoS. Among the most interesting results was the high degree of vocabulary sharing between mathematics, philosophy, and linguistics. Indeed, it turns out that all subjects share their vocabularies with all other subjects, to varying degrees. It was suggested that, in addition to comparing subjects in terms of a linear HoS, similarities between subjects should be examined independently of their position on the HoS.

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Vocabulary sharing among subjects belonging to the hierarchy of sciences

Benjafield

2020

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“…Their findings indicate a redefinition of theoretical concepts over time in addition to a different application of these concepts across domains of psychology. Benjafield (2019) investigated the most salient keywords in anglophone psychology from 1887 to 2014. His findings suggest that keywords associated with the emergence of psychological paradigms are widely used over extended periods of time.…”

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Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015

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We map the topic structure of psychology utilizing a sample of over 500,000 abstracts of research articles and conference proceedings spanning two decades (1995–2015). To do so, we apply structural topic models to examine three research questions: (i) What are the discipline’s most prevalent research topics? (ii) How did the scientific discourse in psychology change over the last decades, especially since the advent of neurosciences? (iii) And was this change carried by high impact (HI) or less prestigious journals? Our results reveal that topics related to natural sciences are trending, while their ’counterparts’ leaning to humanities are declining in popularity. Those trends are even more pronounced in the leading outlets of the field. Furthermore, our findings indicate a continued interest in methodological topics accompanied by the ascent of neurosciences and related methods and technologies (e.g. fMRI’s). At the same time, other established approaches (e.g. psychoanalysis) become less popular and indicate a relative decline of topics related to the social sciences and the humanities.

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“…Here are two examples, in which the Jamesian concept is presented first: habit , schemata (Zangwill, 1972), and self, body schemata (Shontz, 1974). These examples illustrate the general tendency for ordinary language terms, which James tends to use, to be introduced first in psychology followed by more technical terms, of the sort introduced by Head (Benjafield, 2019).…”

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“…A great many keywords in psychology have multiple meanings (Benjafield, 2019, 2020). One example of such a keyword is emotion, the first known English meaning of which is political agitation, civil unrest; a public commotion or uprising .…”

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Creators of the Vocabulary of Anglophone Psychology and Their Relationships

Benjafield

2022

Review of General Psychology

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The vocabulary of anglophone psychology largely developed during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The creators of this vocabulary include such well-known names as William James, Joan Riviere, E. L. Thorndike, and James Strachey. Along with others, they invented many new words and word meanings for psychology. The more a psychologist responded to the need for new vocabulary the more likely were they to be mentioned in publications. Moreover, linguistically creative psychologists occurred together in publications to a greater extent than less linguistically creative psychologists, with William James having the most co-occurrences. A network is presented that links each member of a sample of 59 linguistically creative psychologists to the other member of the sample with whom they most frequently co-occur (e.g., E. L. Thorndike co-occurs most frequently with William James). For each pair, we provide brief descriptions of their similarities and/or differences. There is also a cluster of translators who created new English words and word meanings in order to capture the meanings of words in other languages that had no satisfactory equivalents in English. Generally speaking, the more success psychologists have had in filling the lacunae in psychology’s vocabulary, the more they have been recognized by others.

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Keyword frequencies in anglophone psychology

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References 71 publications

Vocabulary sharing among subjects belonging to the hierarchy of sciences

Vocabulary sharing among subjects belonging to the hierarchy of sciences

Mapping the field of psychology: Trends in research topics 1995–2015

Creators of the Vocabulary of Anglophone Psychology and Their Relationships

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