Historical foundations

• James, William
  William James
  William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...
  
   (1890). Principles of Psychology
  Principles of Psychology
  The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written by William James and published in 1890.There were four methods in James' psychology: analysis , introspection , experiment The Principles of Psychology is a monumental text in the history of psychology, written...
  
  . This monumental text can be viewed as the beginning of psychology. Online version

• Freud, Sigmund
  Sigmund Freud
  Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
  
   (1900). The Interpretation of Dreams
  The Interpretation of Dreams
  The Interpretation of Dreams is a book by psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. The first edition begins:.The book introduces Freud's theory of the unconscious with respect to dream interpretation...
  
  . Dream interpretation became a part of psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis
  Psychoanalysis is a psychological theory developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud. Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such as Alfred Adler and Carl Gustav...
  
   due to this seminal work. Online version

• Freud, Sigmund
  Sigmund Freud
  Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis...
  
   (1920). Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis. Discussion of slips, transference, and dream analysis. Includes classic case studies.

Behaviorism

• Watson, John B.
  John B. Watson
  John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist who established the psychological school of behaviorism. Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address Psychology as the Behaviorist Views it which was given at Columbia University in 1913...
  
   (1913). "Psychology as the behaviorist views it," Psychological Review, 20:158-177. With his behaviorism, Watson put the emphasis on external behavior of people and their reaction to a given situation, rather than the internal, mental states of those people. He argued that the analysis of behavior and reactions was the only objective way to get insight into human actions. Online version

• Skinner, B. F.
  B. F. Skinner
  Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American behaviorist, author, inventor, baseball enthusiast, social philosopher and poet...
  
   (1953). Science and Human Behavior. This is Skinner's seminal textbook, in which he discusses many subjects that are not usually covered, such as psychotherapy, self-control, and thinking. It was written as part of a publishing deal so that he could get his utopian fiction novel published. It has proven to be an enduring Radical Behaviorist treatment of the person and society. Pavlovian behaviorism has been absorbed into and obliterated by other theories of behavior, including Radical Behaviorism. Online version

Behavior Genetics

• Pearson K, Lee A. (1903). On the Laws of Inheritance in Man: Inheritance of Physical Characters. Biometrika, 2(4);357-462.
• Fisher BA. (1918). The Correlation Between Relatives on the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 52:399-433.
• Wright S. (1921). Correlation and Causation. Journal of Agricultural Research, 20(7);557-585.
• Holzinger KJ. (1929). The Relative Effect of Nature and Nurture Influences on Twin Differences. The Journal of Educational Psychology, 20(4):241-248X.
• Vandenberg, SG (ed.), Methods and Goals in Human Behavior Genetics, Academic Press, New York and London
• Erlenmeyer-Kimling L. and Jarvik, L. F.. (1963). Genetics and Intelligence: A Review. Science, 142, http://dx.doi.org/1477-9
• Eaves LJ. (1969). The genetic analysis of continuous variation: A comparison of experimental designs applicable to human data. Br J Math Stat Psychol 22(2):131-147
• Heston LL. (1970). The Genetics of Schizophrenic and Schizoid Disease. Science, 167(3916):249-256.
• Jinks JL, Fulker DW. (1970). Comparison of the biometrical genetical, mava, and classical approaches to the analysis of human behavior. Psychol Bull 73(5):311-349.
• Scarr-Salapatek S. (1971). Race, social class, and IQ. Science 174:1285-1295.
• Eaves LJ, Eysenck H. (1974). Genetics and the development of social attitudes. Nature 249(5454):288-289.
• Eaves LJ, Eysenck H. (1976). Genotype x age interaction for neuroticism. Behav Genet 6(3):359-362.
• Martin NG, Eaves LJ. (1977). The genetical analysis of covariance structure. Heredity 38:79-95.

Biological psychology

• Lewett, D.L., Romano, M.N, & Williston, J.S. (1970). Human auditory evoked potentials: Possible brain stem components detected on the scalp, Science, 167, 1517-1518.

Clinical psychology

• American Psychiatric Association. (1980). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Author.
• Beck, A.T., Rush, A.J., Shaw, B.F., & Emery, G. (1979). Cognitive therapy of depression. New York, NY: Guilford Press.
• Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2002). A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 70, 6-20.
• Cleckley, H. (1941). The mask of sanity. St. Louis, MO: Mosby.
• Ellis, A. (1962). Reason and emotion in psychotherapy.
• Freud, A. (1937). The ego and the mechanisms of defense. London, U.K.: Hogarth Press.
• Freud, S., & Breuer, J. (1895). Case studies in hysteria.
• Freud, S. (1899[1900]). The interpretation of dreams.
• Freud, S. (1901). The psychopathology of everyday life.
• Freud, S. (1905). Three essays on the theory of sexuality.
• Freud, S. (1917). Introduction to psychoanalysis.
• Freud, S. (1923). The ego and the id.
• Hiller, J. B., Rosenthal, R., Bornstein, R. F., Berry, D. T. R., & Brunell-Neuleib, S. (1999). A comparative meta-analysis of Rorschach and MMPI validity. Psychological Assessment, 11, 278-296.
• Kernberg, O. (1975). Borderline conditions and pathological narcissism. New York, NY: Jason Aronson.
• Kraepelin, E. Dementia praecox and paraphrenia.
• Kraepelin, E. Manic-depressive illness and paranoia.
• May, R. (1950). The meaning of anxiety.
• Meehl, P.E. (1954/1996). Clinical versus statistical prediction: A theoretical analysis and a review of the evidence. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press. Reprinted with new Preface, 1996, by Jason Aronson, Northvale, NJ.
• Meehl, P.E. (1973). Why I do not attend case conferences.
• Robins, E and Guze, SB. Establishment of diagnostic validity in psychiatric illness: its application to schizophrenia. Am J Psychiatry 1970; 126:983-987.
• Rogers, C. (1951). Client-centered therapy.
• Shapiro, D. (1973). Neurotic styles. New York, N.Y.: Basic Books.
• Shaver, P.R., & Mikulincer, M. (2005). Attachment theory and research: Resurrection of the psychodynamic approach to personality. Journal of Research in Personality, 39, 22-45.
• Sullivan, H.S. (1953). The interpersonal theory of psychiatry.
• Sullivan H.S. (1970). The psychiatric interview. New York, NY: Norton.
• Szasz, T.S. (1960). The myth of mental illness. American Psychologist, 15, 113-118.
• Wampold, B.E. (2001). The great psychotherapy debate: Models, methods and findings. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
• Westen, D. (1998). The scientific legacy of Sigmund Freud: Toward a psychodynamically informed psychological science. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 333-371.
• Wolpe, J. (1969). The practice of behavior therapy.
• Wood, J.M., Nezworski, M.T., Lilienfeld, S.O., & Garb, H.N. (2003). What's wrong with the Rorschach?

Cognitive psychology

Cognitivism (psychology)

In psychology, cognitivism is a theoretical framework for understanding the mind that came into usage in the 1950s. The movement was a response to behaviorism, which cognitivists said neglected to explain cognition...

• Turing, Alan
  Alan Turing
  Alan Mathison Turing, OBE, FRS , was an English mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which played a...
  
   (1950). "Computing machinery and intelligence
  Computing machinery and intelligence
  Computing Machinery and Intelligence, written by Alan Turing and published in 1950 in Mind, is a seminal paper on the topic of artificial intelligence in which the concept of what is now known as the Turing test was introduced to a wide audience....
  
  ," Mind, vol. LIX, no. 236, October 1950, pp. 433–460. eprint
• Bandura, Albert
  Albert Bandura
  Albert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...
  
  , Ross, D. & Ross, S. A. (1961). "Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models," Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63, 575-582.
• Horn, J. L. (1968). Organization of abilities and the development of intelligence. Psychological Review, 75(3), 242-259.
• Baddeley, Alan
  Alan Baddeley
  Alan David Baddeley FRS, CBE is a British psychologist. He is professor of psychology at the University of York. He is known for his work on working memory, in particular for his multiple components model.-Education:...
  
   & Hitch, G. (1974). Working memory
  Working memory
  Working memory has been defined as the system which actively holds information in the mind to do verbal and nonverbal tasks such as reasoning and comprehension, and to make it available for further information processing...
  
  . In G.H. Bower (Ed.), The psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory (Vol. 8, pp. 47–89). New York: Academic Press.
• Fodor, Jerry
  Jerry Fodor
  Jerry Alan Fodor is an American philosopher and cognitive scientist. He holds the position of State of New Jersey Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and is the author of many works in the fields of philosophy of mind and cognitive science, in which he has laid the groundwork for the...
  
   (1975). The Language of thought
  Language of thought
  In philosophy of mind, the language of thought hypothesis put forward by American philosopher Jerry Fodor describes thoughts as represented in a "language" that allows complex thoughts to be built up by combining simpler thoughts in various ways...
  
  
• Zenon Pylyshyn
  Zenon Pylyshyn
  Zenon Pylyshyn is a Canadian cognitive scientist and philosopher.He holds degrees in Engineering-Physics from McGill University and in Control Systems and Experimental Psychology , both from the University of Saskatchewan. His dissertation was on the application of information theory to studies...
  
   (1984). Computation and Cognition.
• Bandura, Albert
  Albert Bandura
  Albert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...
  
   (1986). Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
• Biederman, I. (1987). Recognition-by-Components: A theory of human image understanding. Psychological Review, 94, 115-147.
• Stevan Harnad
  Stevan Harnad
  Stevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist.- Career :Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology...
  
   (1994). "Computation Is Just Interpretable Symbol Manipulation: Cognition Isn't," Minds and Machines 4: 379-390.
• Holyoak, Keith
  Keith Holyoak
  Keith James Holyoak is a researcher in cognitive psychology and cognitive science, working on human thinking and reasoning. Holyoak's work focuses on the role of analogy in thinking...
  
   and Morrison, Robert (2005). The Cambridge Handbook of Thinking and Reasoning Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53101-2. A recent comprehensive collection of survey chapters on topics in higher cognition.
• George Mandler
  George Mandler
  George Mandler is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego.Mandler was born in Vienna on 11 June 1924. He received his B.S. from New York University and his Ph. D. degree from Yale University in 1953. He served in the U.S. Army Military Intelligence...
  
   (2007). A history of modern experimental psychology: From James and Wundt to cognitive science Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Control Theory psychology

• Powers, William T.
  William T. Powers
  William T. Powers is an independent scientist who has developed perceptual control theory, which finds that the behavior of living things is not controlled by them, but rather is their means of controlling their inputs...
  
  (2005). Behavior: The control of perception (2nd Edition) New Canaan, Connecticut: Benchmark. The basic textbook on the control theory approach to understanding behavior and cognition.
• Powers, William
  William T. Powers
  William T. Powers is an independent scientist who has developed perceptual control theory, which finds that the behavior of living things is not controlled by them, but rather is their means of controlling their inputs...
  
  (2008). Living control systems III: The fact of control. Bloomfield, New Jersey: Benchmark
• Marken, Richard S. (1992). Mind readings: Experimental studies of purpose., Los Angeles, CA: MindReadings.com
• Marken, Richard S. (2002). More mind readings: Methods and models in the study of purpose., St. Louis, MO: Newview.
• Runkel, Phillip (2003). People as living things. The psychology of perceptual control.,Hayward, CA: Living Control Systems Publishing
• Cziko, Gary (2000). The things we do: Using the lessons of Bernard and Darwin to understand the what, how and why of our behavior., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press

Developmental psychology

• Damon, W. & Lerner,R.M.(2007), Handbook of Child Psychology(6th edition), Wiley.
• Baldwin, J. M. (1894). Mental development in the child and the race. New York: Macmillan.
• Beilin, H. (1992). Piaget's Enduring Contribution to Developmental Psychology. Developmental Psychology, 28(2), 191-204.
• Bringuier, JC. (Ed.). (1980). Conversations with Jean Piaget. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1977)
• Chapman, M. (1988). Constructive Evolution: Origins and Development of Piaget’s Thought. Cambridge, UK: University of Cambridge Press.
• Bronfenbrenner, Urie
  Urie Bronfenbrenner
  Urie Bronfenbrenner was a Russian American psychologist, known for developing his Ecological Systems Theory, and as a co-founder of the Head Start program in the United States for disadvantaged pre-school children....
  
   (1979). The Ecology of Human Development.
• Gruber, HE, Vonèche JJ. (Eds.). (1993). The Essential Piaget: An Interpretive Reference and Guide (2nd ed.). Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson.
• Lourenço, O, Machado A. (1996). In Defense of Piaget's Theory: A Reply to 10 Common Criticisms. Psychological Review, 103(1), 143-164.
• Jean Matter Mandler
  Jean Matter Mandler
  Jean Matter Mandler is Distinguished Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego and Visiting Professor at University College London....
  
   (2004). The foundations of mind: The origins of conceptual thought. New York: Oxford University Press.

• Piaget, Jean. (1952). The Origins of Intelligence in Children (M. Cook, Trans. 2nd ed.). New York: International Universities Press. (Original work published 1936)
• Piaget, Jean. (1985). The Equilibration of Cognitive Structures: The Central Problem of Intellectual Development (T. Brown & K. J. Thampy, Trans.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Original work published 1975)
• Siegler, RS. (1996). Emerging Minds: The Process of Change in Children's Thinking. New York: Oxford University Press.

Educational psychology

• Anderson, J. R., Corbett, A. T., Koedinger, K. R., Pelletier, R. (1995). Cognitive tutors: Lessons learned. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 4, 167-207.
• Bandura, Albert
  Albert Bandura
  Albert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...
  
   (1993). "Perceived self-efficacy in cognitive development and functioning," Educational psychologist, 28, 117-148.
• Cronbach, Lee J. (1957). "The two disciplines of scientific psychology," American Psychologist, 12, 671-684.
• Cronbach, Lee J. and Meehl, Paul E.
  Paul E. Meehl
  Paul Everett Meehl was an American psychology professor.Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Meehl attended University of Minnesota, earning his bachelor's degree in 1941 and his doctorate in 1945...
  
   (1955). "Construct validity in psychological tests," Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.
• Mayer, R. E. (1997). "Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions?" Educational Psychologist, 32, 1-19.
• Palincsar, A. S. (1998). Social constructivist perspectives on teaching and learning. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345-375.
• Skinner, B. F
  B. F. Skinner
  Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American behaviorist, author, inventor, baseball enthusiast, social philosopher and poet...
  
  . (1958). "Teaching Machines," Science, 128 (3330), 969-977.
• Spearman, Charles
  Charles Spearman
  Charles Edward Spearman, FRS was an English psychologist known for work in statistics, as a pioneer of factor analysis, and for Spearman's rank correlation coefficient...
  
   (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured]. American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
• Sweller, J., van Merriënboer J. J., Paas F. G. (1998). "Cognitive architecture and instructional design," Educational Psychology Review, 10, 251-296.
• Terman, Lewis M.
  Lewis Terman
  Lewis Madison Terman was an American psychologist, noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford University School of Education. He is best known as the inventor of the Stanford-Binet IQ test...
  
   (1916). "The uses of intelligence tests," in The measurement of intelligence (chapter 1). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• Thorndike, Edward L.
  Edward Thorndike
  Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on animal behavior and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for modern educational psychology...
  
   (1910). "The contribution of psychology to education," Journal of Educational Psychology, 1, 5-12.
• Thurstone, Louis L.
  Louis Leon Thurstone
  Louis Leon Thurstone was a U.S. pioneer in the fields of psychometrics and psychophysics. He conceived the approach to measurement known as the law of comparative judgment, and is well known for his contributions to factor analysis.-Background and history:Louis Leon Thurstone was born in Chicago,...
  
   (1934). "The vectors of mind," Psychological Review, 41, 1-32.

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology

Evolutionary psychology is an approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective. It seeks to identify which human psychological traits are evolved adaptations, that is, the functional...

• Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides
  Leda Cosmides
  Leda Cosmides, is an American psychologist, who, together with anthropologist husband John Tooby, helped develop the field of evolutionary psychology....
  
   and John Tooby
  John Tooby
  John Tooby is an American anthropologist, who, together with psychologist wife Leda Cosmides, helped pioneer the field of evolutionary psychology....
  
   (1992). The Adapted Mind. NY: Oxford University Press.
• Buss, D.M.
  David Buss
  David M. Buss is a professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Austin, known for his evolutionary psychology research on human sex differences in mate selection.-Biography:...
  
  (2004).Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.

Evolutionary developmental psychology

Evolutionary developmental psychology

Evolutionary developmental psychology, , is the application of the basic principles of Darwinian evolution, particularly natural selection, to explain contemporary human development...

• Bjorklund DF, Pellegrini AD. (2002). The Origins of Human Nature: Evolutionary Developmental Psychology. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.

• Burgess R. L., MacDonald. (Eds.) (2004). Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Development, 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

• Ellis BJ, Bjorklund DF. (Eds.) (2005). Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary psychology and child development . New York: Guilford Press.

Evolutionary educational psychology

Evolutionary educational psychology

Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of the relation between inherent folk knowledge and abilities and accompanying inferential and attributional biases as these influence academic learning in evolutionarily novel cultural contexts, such as schools and the industrial workplace...

• Geary, D. C. (2002). Principles of evolutionary educational psychology. Learning and Individual Differences, 12, 317-345.

• Geary, D. C. (2005). Folk knowledge and academic learning. In B. J. Ellis & D. F. Bjorklund (Eds.), Origins of the social mind (pp. 493–519). New York: Guilford Publications.

Forensic psychology

Forensic psychology

Forensic psychology is the intersection between psychology and the criminal justice system. It involves understanding criminal law in the relevant jurisdictions in order to be able to interact appropriately with judges, attorneys and other legal professionals...

• Alan M. Goldstein (2003). Forensic Psychology. ISBN 0-471-61920-5. Forty seven forensic psychologists cover the theory and practice of forensic psychology in both civil and criminal litigation.

• Hugo Münsterberg
  Hugo Münsterberg
  Hugo Münsterberg was a German-American psychologist. He was one of the pioneers in applied psychology, extending his research and theories to Industrial/Organizational , legal, medical, clinical, educational and business settings. Münsterberg encountered immense turmoil with the outbreak of the...
  
   (1908). On the Witness Stand. Considered to be the first publication to apply psychology to legal matters. Among the topics discussed are the reliability of witnesses' testimony and memory, lie detection, and methods of interrogating suspects of crime.

Genetic Psychology

• Baldwin, JM
  James Mark Baldwin
  James Mark Baldwin was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university...
  
  . (1896). A New Factor in Evolution. The American Naturalist, 30(354), 441-451.
• Piaget, Jean. (1979). Behaviour and Evolution (D. Nicholson-Smith, Trans.). London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Original work published 1976)
• Simpson, GG. (1953). The Baldwin Effect. Evolution, 7(2), 110-117.
• Weber, BH. & Depew, D. J. (Eds.). (2003). Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered. Cambridge, MA: Bradford/MIT Press.

Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology

Gestalt psychology or gestaltism is a theory of mind and brain of the Berlin School; the operational principle of gestalt psychology is that the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies...

• Max Wertheimer
  Max Wertheimer
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   (1912). Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement. Considered to be the founding article for Gestalt psychology. The article described the Phi phenomenon
  Phi phenomenon
  The phi phenomenon is an optical illusion defined by Max Wertheimer in the Gestalt psychology in 1912, in which the persistence of vision formed a part of the base of the theory of the cinema, applied by Hugo Münsterberg in 1916....
  
  .

Humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychology

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, drawing on the work of early pioneers like Carl Rogers and the philosophies of existentialism and phenomenology...

Man's Search for Meaning, Viktor Frankl, 1946

On Becoming a Person, Carl Rogers, 1961.

Industrial and organizational psychology

Industrial and organizational psychology

Industrial and organizational psychology is the scientific study of employees, workplaces, and organizations. Industrial and organizational psychologists contribute to an organization's success by improving the performance and well-being of its people...

• Schmidt, F.L., & Hunter, J.E. (1998). The validity and utility of selection methods in personnel psychhology: Practical and theoretical implications of 85 years of research findings. Psychological Bulletin, 124, 262-274.
• Kraiger, K., Ford, J.K., & Salas, E. (1993). Application of cognitive, skill​-​based, and affective theories of learning outcomes to new methods of training evaluation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78(2), 311-328.

Neuropharmacology

Neuropharmacology

Neuropharmacology is the study of how drugs affect cellular function in the nervous system. There are two main branches of neuropharmacology: behavioral and molecular. Behavioral neuropharmacology focuses on the study of how drugs affect human behavior , including the study of how drug dependence...

• Jack Cooper, Floyd Bloom, & Robert Roth (1996). The Biochemical Basis of Neuropharmacology. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510399-8.

Occupational health psychology

Occupational health psychology

Occupational health psychology emerged out of two distinct applied disciplines within psychology, health psychology and industrial/organizational psychology, and occupational health. OHP is concerned with the psychosocial characteristics of workplaces that contribute to the development of...

• Everly, G. S., Jr. (1986). An introduction to occupational health psychology. In P. A. Keller & L. G. Ritt (Eds.), Innovations in clinical practice: A source book, Vol. 5 (pp. 331–338). Sarasota, FL: Professional Resource Exchange.
• Frese, M. (1985). Stress at work and psychosomatic complaints: A causal interpretation. Journal of Applied Psychology, 70, 314-328.
• Karasek, R. A. (1979). Job demands, job decision latitude, and mental strain: Implications for job redesign. Administrative Science Quarterly, 24, 285-307.
• Kasl, S. V. (1978). Epidemiological contributions to the study of work stress. In C. L. Cooper & R. L. Payne (Eds.), Stress at work (pp. 3–38). Chichester, UK: Wiley.
• Kasl, S. V., & Cobb, S. (1970). Blood pressure changes in men undergoing job loss: A preliminary report. Psychosomatic Medicine, 32, 19-38.
• Kelloway, E.K., Barling, J., & Hurrell, J.J., Jr. (Eds.) (2006). Handbook of workplace violence. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Leka, S., & Houdmont, J. (Eds.)(2010). Occupational health psychology. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Parkes, K. R. (1982). Occupational stress among student nurses: A natural experiment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 67, 784-796.
• Quick, J.C., Murphy,L.R., & Hurrell, J.J., Jr. (Eds.) (1992). Work and well-being: Assessments and instruments for occupational mental health. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Quick, J. C., & Tetrick, L. E. (Eds.). (2003). Handbook of occupational health psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Raymond, J., Wood, D., & Patrick, W. (1990). Psychology training in work and health. American Psychologist, 45, 1159-1161.
• Sauter, S.L., & Murphy, L.R. (Eds.) (1995). Organizational risk factors for job stress. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
• Siegrist, J. (1996). Adverse health effects of high effort-low reward conditions at work. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1, 27-43.
• Zapf, D., Dormann, C., & Frese, M. (1996). Longitudinal studies in organizational stress research: A review of the literature with reference to methodological issues. Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, 1, 145-169.

Personality psychology

Personality psychology

Personality psychology is a branch of psychology that studies personality and individual differences. Its areas of focus include:* Constructing a coherent picture of the individual and his or her major psychological processes...

• Abraham Maslow
  Abraham Maslow
  Abraham Harold Maslow was an American professor of psychology at Brandeis University, Brooklyn College, New School for Social Research and Columbia University who created Maslow's hierarchy of needs...
  
   (1943). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396.

In this paper the Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans' innate curiosity...

 was described. Online version

• John, O. P. (1990). The "Big Five" factor taxonomy: Dimensions of personality in the natural language and in questionnaires. In L. A. Pervin (Ed.), Handbook of personality: Theory and research (pp. 66-100). New York: Guilford.
• Costa, P. T., Jr., & McCrae, R. R. (1992). Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. Psychological Assessment, 4, 5-13.
• Goldberg, L. R. (1993). The structure of phenotypic personality traits. American Psychologist, 48(1), 26–34.
• Digman, J. M. (1997). Higher-order factors of the Big Five. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 73, 1246-1256.

Phenomenology

Phenomenology (psychology)

Phenomenology is an approach to psychological subject matter that has its roots in the philosophical work of Edmund Husserl. Early phenomenologists such as Husserl, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty conducted their own psychological investigations in the early 20th century...

• Medard Boss
  Medard Boss
  Medard Boss was a Swiss psychoanalytic psychiatrist who developed a form of psychotherapy known as Daseinsanalysis, which was largely based on the existential-phenomenological philosophy of friend and mentor Martin Heidegger. During his medical studies he was strongly influenced by the...
  
  , Existential Foundations of Medicine and Psychology (Jason Aronson, 1984; ISBN 1-56821-420-0)
• Medard Boss
  Medard Boss
  Medard Boss was a Swiss psychoanalytic psychiatrist who developed a form of psychotherapy known as Daseinsanalysis, which was largely based on the existential-phenomenological philosophy of friend and mentor Martin Heidegger. During his medical studies he was strongly influenced by the...
  
  , Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis (Da Capo Pr, 1982; ISBN 0-306-79708-9)
• Medard Boss
  Medard Boss
  Medard Boss was a Swiss psychoanalytic psychiatrist who developed a form of psychotherapy known as Daseinsanalysis, which was largely based on the existential-phenomenological philosophy of friend and mentor Martin Heidegger. During his medical studies he was strongly influenced by the...
  
  , The Analysis of Dreams (Philosophical Library, 1958)
• Amedeo Giorgi
  Amedeo Giorgi
  Amedeo Giorgi serves on the faculty of Saybrook Graduate School. He was an early member of the "Duquesne School" of psychology and is credited with formalizing phenomenological methods for psychology...
  
  , Psychology as a Human Science (Harper & Row, 1970)
• R. D. Laing, The Divided Self (Penguin, 1965)
• Robert D Romanyshyn, Mirror and Metaphor: Images and Stories of Psychological Life (Trivium, 2001)
• Ernesto Spinelli, The Interpreted World: An Introduction to Phenomenological Psychology (Sage, 2nd Edition, 2005)
• Erwin Straus
  Erwin Straus
  Erwin Straus , a phenomenologist and neurologist of European origin, helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings...
  
  , Man, Time and World (Humanities Press, 1982)
• Erwin Straus
  Erwin Straus
  Erwin Straus , a phenomenologist and neurologist of European origin, helped to pioneer anthropological medicine and psychiatry, a holistic approach to medicine that is critical of mechanistic and reductionistic approaches to understanding and treating human beings...
  
  , The Primary World of the Senses (Free Press of Glencoe, 1963)
• Jan Hendrik van den Berg
  Jan Hendrik van den Berg
  Jan Hendrik van den Berg is a Dutch psychiatrist notable for his work in phenomenological psychotherapy and metabletics, or "psychology of historical change." He is the author of numerous articles and books, including A different existence and The changing nature of man.-Biography:Jan Hendrik ...
  
  , A Different Existence (Duquesne University Press, 1973)

Religion

Psychology of religion

Psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to religious traditions, as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals. The science attempts to accurately describe the details, origins, and uses of religious beliefs and behaviours...

• William James
  William James
  William James was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher who was trained as a physician. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and mysticism, and on the philosophy of pragmatism...
  
  , The Varieties of Religious Experience
  The Varieties of Religious Experience
  The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland between 1901 and 1902.These lectures...
  
  (1902)
• Kenneth Pargament
  Kenneth Pargament
  Kenneth I. Pargament is a professor of psychology at Bowling Green State University .-Biography:Born in 1950 in Washington, D.C., Pargament received his Ph. D from the University of Maryland in 1977. He currently studies various relationships between religion, psychological well-being and stress,...
  
  , Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice
  Psychology of Religion and Coping (book)
  The Psychology of Religion and Coping: Theory, Research, Practice by Kenneth Pargament was published in the US in 1997. It is addressed to professional psychologists and researchers, and has been reviewed in many professional journals....
  
  (Guilford, 1997; ISBN 1572302143)

Psychophysics

• Gustav Fechner
  Gustav Fechner
  Gustav Theodor Fechner , was a German experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers...
  
  . (1836) Elements of Psychophysics. Foundation of the field of psychophysics
  Psychophysics
  Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they effect. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, more completely, as "the analysis of perceptual...
  
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• Green, D.M. and Swets J.A. (1966) Signal Detection Theory and Psychophysics.

Social psychology

Bandura, A.

Albert Bandura

Albert Bandura is a psychologist and the David Starr Jordan Professor Emeritus of Social Science in Psychology at Stanford University...

 (1986). Social Foundations of Thought and Action: A Social Cognitive Theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Classic Readings on Prejudice and Intergroup Relations

• Allport, G.W. (1954). The nature of prejudice. New York: Doubleday.

This book expounds one of the most influential theories of prejudice reduction, known as the Contact Hypothesis: increasing contact between members of different groups is the foundation for reducing intergroup hostility.

• Tajfel, H., & Turner, J.C.. (1979). An integrative theory of intergroup conflict. In W.G. Austin & S. Worchel (Eds.), The social psychology of intergroup relations (pp. 33–47). Monterey, CA: Brooks/Cole. (see Social Identity Theory
  Social identity
  A social identity is the portion of an individual's self-concept derived from perceived membership in a relevant social group. As originally formulated by Henri Tajfel and John Turner in the 1970s and 80s, social identity theory introduced the concept of a social identity as a way in which to...
  
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External links

• Classics in the History of Psychology, an electronic resource developed by Professor Christopher D. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada, ISSN 1492-3173.