Genuchten, Kees van (2024) Towards a Psychological History: Social Science and Historical Methods. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Contemporary psychologists tend not to interact with history. This thesis addresses why that is the case by tracing attempts at integrating psychology and history. Additionally efforts at including history in psychology are compared with the inclusion of history in other social sciences, primarily economic history. Early attempts at integrating history in psychology have mainly been done by psychoanalysts, which did not result in increased collaboration between the fields. Modern psychologists tend to discount research that is not based in experimental methods, with the exception of qualitative psychology. However, qualitative psychologists mostly focus on the present as well. Psychologists should look at economic history for methods in quantitative historical research. For qualitative historical research, the Annales school has established various methods that could be useful. Work from historical ontologists could serve as a meta-theoretical framework to back these approaches.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Derksen, M. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Theory and History of Psychology [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 08 May 2024 09:46 |
| Last Modified: | 08 May 2024 09:46 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3340 |
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