The ''American Journal of Psychology'' is a journal devoted primarily to

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. It is the first such journal to be published in the English language (though ''

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'', founded in 1876, published some experimental psychology earlier). ''AJP'' was founded by the

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psychologist

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in 1887. This quarterly journal has distributed several groundbreaking papers in psychology. The AJP investigates the science of behavior and the mind, releasing reports of original research based on experimental psychology, theoretical presentations, combined theoretical and experimental analyses, historical commentaries, and detailed reviews of well-known books.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic ASAP, JSTOR, BIOSIS, and

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Notable articles

*Sanford Bell,
A preliminary study of the emotion of love between the sexes
', in ''The American Journal of Psychology'', University of Illinois Press, July 1902, vol. 13, n°. 4, pp. 325-354. (first article ever published about " child sexuality"As quoted in

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,
Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis
', 1910. Quote: "As fate would have it, I am in a position to call a witness for my assertions from your own midst. I show you here the work of one, Dr. Sanford Bell, published in 1902 in the American Journal of Psychology. The author was a fellow of Clark University, the same institution within whose walls we now stand. In this thesis, entitled A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes, which appeared three years before my Three Essays on Sexual Theory, the author says just what I have been saying to you: "The emotion of sex love . . . does not make its appearance for the first time at the period of adolescence as has been thought."") *Frank C. Davis,
Aesthetic proportion
' in ''American Journal of Psychology'', 45, 298-302, 1933. , ( golden rectangle)

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* English-language journals Experimental psychology journals Publications established in 1887 University of Illinois Press academic journals Quarterly journals {{Psychology-journal-stub