title: Whig and anti-whig histories- and other curiosities of social psychology.
abstract: In successive editions of the Handbook of Social Psychology (Lindzey, 1954), the focus of the history of the field shifted from the substantive ideas of nineteenth-century thinkers to the successful emergence of a psychological experimental social psychology in the twentieth. Countering this whiggish account, the dominant themes in the present issue involve attempts to portray two parallel paradigm shifts: from a "social" to an "asocial" social psychology, and from a broad-ranging theoretical-philosophical subject to a narrow experimental (psychological) science-changes initiated by Floyd Allport. But such a formulation may be called into question as another version of retrospective history-with inverted, anti-Whig valuations.
authors.affiliation: Kansas State University, Manhattan KS 66506, USA. samelson@ksu.edu
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Samelson
mesh_terms: D006663:Historiography; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D011589:Psychology, Experimental / Q000266:history; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000266:history*; D012013:Reference Books; D014481:United States