Klassische Originaltexte aus der langen Geschichte vor allem der
amerikanischen Psychologie finden sich in der Zusammenstellung von
Christopher D. Green (York University, Toronto, Canada)
- Hall, G. Stanley. (1904). Adolescent
girls and their education. From Adolescence: Its psychology
and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex,
crime, religion, and education (Vol. 2, Chapter 17).
- Spearman, Charles. (1904). "General
intelligence," objectively determined and measured.
American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
- Yerkes, Robert M. & Dodson, John D. (1908).
The
relation of strength of stimulus to rapidity of
habit-formation. Journal of Comparative Neurology and
Psychology, 18, 459-482.
- Watson, John B. (1913). Psychology
as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review,
20, 158-177
- Watson, John B. & Rayner, Rosalie. (1920).
Conditioned
emotional reactions. Journal of Experimental
Psychology, 3, 1-14.
- Allport, Floyd H. & Allport, Gordon W. (1921).
Personality traits: Their classificiation and measurement.
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 16,
6-40.
- Lashley, Karl S. (1930). Basic
neural mechanisms in behavior. Psychological Review,
37, 1-24.
- Skinner, B. F. (1935). Two
types of conditioned reflex and a pseudo type. Journal of
General Psychology, 12, 66-77.
- Maslow, Abraham H. (1943). A
theory of human motivation. Psychological Review,
50, 370-396.
- Rogers, Carl R.. (1946). Significant
aspects of client-centered therapy. American
Psychologist, 1, 415-422.
- Heider, Fritz. (1946). Attitudes
and cognitive organization. Journal of Psychology,
21, 107-112.
- Guthrie, Edwin R. (1946). Psychological
facts and psychological theory. Psychological Bulletin,
43, 1-20.
- Tolman, Edward, C. (1948). Cognitive
maps in rats and men. Psychological Review,
55(4), 189-208.
- Bruner, Jerome S. & Postman, Leo. (1949). On
the perception of incongruity: A paradigm. Journal of
Personality, 18, 206-223.
- Miller, George A. (1956). The
magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our
capacity for processing information. Psychological
Review, 63, 81-97.
- Festinger, Leon & Carlsmith, James M. (1959).
Cognitive
consequences of forced compliance. Journal of Abnormal and
Social Psychology, 58, 203-210.
- Bandura, Albert, Ross, Dorothea, & Ross, Sheila A.
(1961). Transmisssion
of aggressions through imitation of aggressive models.
Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 63,
575-582.