why can we say that beliefs, economy, polytics and science paradigms have influenced in the course of the psychology?

-- Rodrigo Cortés Fernández (ffalcon80@hotmail.com), September 11, 2001

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I would say that trends in all sciences influence each other. Just one example -- for most of the 20th century, the "operational definition" was a very important methodological concept in psychology. Interestingly, it did not originate in psychology, however, but in physics (in Percy Bridgman's book, _The Logic of Modern Physics_). Economics and cognitive psychology have been closely related -- indeed Herb Simon and Amos Tversky were primarily economists, though they are both very well known among psychologists as well.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), September 12, 2001.