Psychology and history

Abstract

Reviews the relation between psychology and history. Suggests that there are two possible methods to resolve the conflict between psychology and history: either the two fields remain yoked together, in which case, one becomes subordinated to the other, or, they get logically separated. This separation can be supported by the fact that while history is an idiographic science, psychology is nomothetic. The difference between them is not methodological, but, ontological, and the relation between the two is parallel to the one between psychology and physics. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1899 American Psychological Association.