Psychology Book

	List of Contributors
	Preface
	Overview of This Book
I	Psychology Becomes a Science: Influences from Within and Without
1	Vicissitudes of Fechnerian Psychophysics in America	3
2	Origins of American Psychology in the Work of G. E. Muller: Classical Psychophysics and Serial Learning	17
3	Why Study Wundtian Psychology?	77
4	Francis Galton and American Psychology	89
5	William James on the Demise of Positivism in American Psychology	101
6	Theory and History of Psychology and the Denial and Affirmation of the Self	135
II	Socioeconomic and Political Factors in the Development of Psychology
7	Americanization of Psychology Before William James	191
8	American Culture and Psychology	217
9	Diverse Relations Between Psychology and Evolutionary Thought	227
III	Psychological Systems: Past, Present, and Future
10	Gestalt Theory and Evolutionary Psychology	255
11	The Experimental Analysis of Operant Behavior: A History	289
12	The Historical Antecedents of Contemporary Behaviorism	301
13	The Assimilation of Psychoanalysis in America: From Popularization to Vulgarization	355
14	In Tribute to Piaget: A Look at His Scientific Impact in the United States	399
15	Genetic Epistemology and Developmental Psychology	411
16	Some Recent Research and Its Link With a New Theory of Groupings and Conservations Based on Commutability	423
17	Thought and Things: James Mark Baldwin and the Biosocial Origins of Mind	429
18	Historical and Contemporary Significance of Vygotsky's Sociohistorical Psychology	455
19	Sitzfleisch, the Zeitgeist, and the Hindsightgeist	475
	Author Index	481
	Subject Index	491
	About the Editors	509