The Spread of the New Definition of Psychology

The Principle of Inversion: Why the Quantitative-Empirical Paradigm Cannot Serve as a Unifying Basis for Psychology as an Academic Discipline

“…Nevertheless, the founders of modern academic psychology with its predominantly experimental and empirical orientation in the nineteenth century—most notably Wilhelm Wundt—continued to use this term. Further historical research (such as Russo Krauss, 2019 ) might explain why “ psyche ” was retained as term for their subject matter, thus clarifying the conceptual ideas behind actual research.…”