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Psychological Review is a scientific journal that publishes articles on psychological theory. It was founded by Princeton psychologist James Mark Baldwin and Columbia psychologist James McKeen Cattell in 1894 as a publication vehicle for psychologists not connected with the Clark laboratory of G. Stanley Hall (who often published in Hall's American Journal of Psychology). Psychological Review soon became the most prominent and influential psychology journal in North America, publishing important articles by William James, John Dewey, James Rowland Angell, and many others.

History of the journal

In the early years of the 20th century, Baldwin purchased Cattell's interest in the journal, but was forced to sell the journal to Howard Warren in 1908 when scandal forced him out of his professorship at Johns Hopkins (where he had moved in 1903). Editorship of the journal fell to Baldwin's newly-hired young colleague John B. Watson, who used the journal to advance his school of behaviorism. Psychological Review was eventually sold by Warren to the American Psychological Association who has owned it ever since.

Psychological Review's mission has changed somewhat over the decades. Originally is was a journal of general psychology. With the rise of a wide variety of other psychology journals, it gradually came to focus on psychological theory.

According to its website,

Psychological Review publishes articles that make important theoretical contributions to any area of scientific psychology. Preference is given to papers that advance theory, but systematic evaluation of alternative theories in a given domain will also be considered for publication. Papers devoted to surveys of the literature, problems of method and design, or reports of empirical findings are not appropriate. [1]

It is one of psychology's most prestigious journals, having am impact factor of 8,357 in 2003. It is commonly abbreviated as PSYCHOL REV.

Further details

  • Office address:
Keith Rayner, PhD [2] [3]
Editor
Department of Psychology
Tobin Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
  • E-mail: psychrev@psych.umass.edu
  • Publication frequency: Quarterly beginning in January
  • Language: English

Full texts available online

Volume 114 (2007)

  • Jones, M.N. & Mewhort, D.J.K. (2007). Representing Word Meaning and Order Information in a Composite Holographic Lexicon. Psychological Review, 114, 1-37. Full text
  • Bowman, H. & Wyble, B. (2007). The Simultaneous Type, Serial Token Model of Temporal Attention and Working Memory. Psychological Review, 114, 38-70. Full text
  • Thornton, T.L. & Gilden, D.L. (2007). Parallel and serial processes in visual search. Psychological Review, 114, 71-103. Full text
  • Unsworth, N., & Engle, R.W. (2007). The nature of individual differences in working memory capacity: Active maintenance in primary memory and controlled search from secondary memory. Psychological Review, 114, 104-132. Full text
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007a). Dual-process theory and signal-detection theory of recognition memory. Psychological Review, 114, 152-176. Full text
  • Wixted, J. T. (2007b). Spotlighting the probative findings: A reply to Parks and Yonelinas (2007). Psychological Review, 114, 203-209. Full text

Volume 113 (2006)

  • Rips, L.J., Blok, S., & Newman, G. (2006). Tracing the identity of objects. Psychological Review, 113, 1-30. Full text
  • Pitt, M.A., Kim, W., Navarro, D.J., Myung, J.I. (2006). Global model analysis by parameter space partitioning. Psychological Review, 113, 57-83. Full text
  • Colonius, H. & Diederich, A. (2006). The Race Model Inequality: Interpreting a Geometric Measure of the Amount of Violation. Psychological Review, 113, 148-154. Full text
  • Blanton, H. & Jaccard, J. (2006). Tests of Multiplicative Models in Psychology: A Case Study Using the Unified Theory of Implicit Attitudes, Stereotypes, Self-Esteem, and Self-Concept. Psychological Review, 113, 155-165. Full text
  • Greenwald, A.G., Rudman, L.A., Nosek, B.A., & Zayas, V. (2006). Why So Little Faith? A Reply to Blanton and Jaccard's (2006) Skeptical View of Testing Pure Multiplicative Theories: Postcript. Psychological Review, 113, 170-180. Full text
  • Barrett, H.C. & Kurzban, R. (2006). Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate. Psychological Review, 113, 628-647. Full text

Volume 112 (2005)

  • Davelaar, E.J., Goshen-Gottstein, Y., Ashkenazi, A., Haarmann, H.J., & Usher, M. (2005). The demise of short-term memory revisited: Empirical and computational investigations of recency effects. Psychological Review, 112, 3-42. Full text
  • Perfetti, C.A., Liu, Y., & Tan, L.H. (2005). The Lexical Constituency Model: Some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading. Psychological Review, 112, 43-59. Full text
  • Kavanagh, D.J., Andrade, J., & May, J. (2005). Imaginary relish and exquisite torture: The elaborated intrusion theory of desire. Psychological Review, 112, 446-467. Full text
  • Krebs, D. L. & Denton, K. (2005). Toward a more pragmatic approach to morality: A critical evaluation of Kohlberg’s model. Psychological Review, 112, 629-649. Full text

Volume 111 (2004)

  • Gopnik, A., et.al. (2004). A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets. Psychological Review, 111, 3-32. Full text

Volume 110 (2003)

  • Heinke, D. & Humphreys, G.W. (2003). Attention, spatial representation, and visual neglect: Simulating emergent attention and spatial memory in the selective attention for identification model (SAIM). Psychological Review, 110, 29-87. Full text

Volume 109 (2002)

  • Klein, S., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J., & Chance, S. (2002). Decisions and the evolution of memory: Multiple systems, multiple functions. Psychological Review, 109, 306-329. Full text
  • Geary, D.C. & Flinn, M.V. (2002). Sex differences in behavioral and hormonal response to social threat: Commentary on Taylor et al. (2000). Psychological Review, 109, 745-750. Full text

Volume 108 (2001)

  • Gilden, D. L. (2001). Cognitive emissions of 1/f noise. Psychological Review, 108, 33-56. Full text
  • Dickens, W.T. & Flynn, J.R. (2001). Heritability estimates versus large environmental effects: The IQ paradox resolved. Psychological Review, 108, 346-369. Full text

Volume 107 (2000)

  • Conway, M.A. & Pleydell-Pearce, C.W. (2000). The construction of autobiographical memories in the self-memory system. Psychological Review, 107, 261-288. Full text
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