Psychological Bulletin is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 specializing in literature reviews. It was founded by Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins University

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 psychologist James Mark Baldwin

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...

 in 1904 immediately after he had bought out James McKeen Cattell

James McKeen Cattell

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's share of Psychological Review

Psychological Review

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, which the two had founded ten years earlier. Baldwin gave the editorship of both journals to John B. Watson

John B. Watson

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 when scandal forced him to resign his position at Johns Hopkins in 1909. Ownership of the Bulletin passed to Howard C. Warren, who eventually donated it to the American Psychological Association

American Psychological Association

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which continues to own it to the present day.