ABSTRACT
Psychology journals grew along with the field itself, beginning the century closely allied with a few key individuals and laboratories and evolving into well structured and tightly defined publications. The American Journal of Psychology was first published in 1887 and is the longest continually published psychology journal in the United States. Psychological Bulletin has been among the most important psychology journals since its inception in 1904. The Journal of Applied Psychology was founded by G. Stanley Hall in 1917 and is published by the American Psychological Association. The Journal of Memory and Language began life as the Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior in 1962. Child Development began publication in 1930 by the Williams and Wilkins Company but was taken over by the Society for Research in Child Development in 1936. The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology has a relatively short but highly interesting publishing history.
