The ''American Journal of Psychology'' is a journal devoted primarily to experimental psychology. It is the first such journal to be published in the English language (though '' Mind'', founded in 1876, published some experimental psychology earlier). ''AJP'' was founded by the

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psychologist

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in 1887. This quarterly journal has distributed several groundbreaking papers in psychology . The AJP investigates the science of behavior and the mind, releasing reports of original research based on experimental psychology, theoretical presentations, combined theoretical and experimental analyses, historical commentaries, and detailed reviews of well-known books.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Academic ASAP, JSTOR, BIOSIS, and

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* English-language journals Experimental psychology journals Publications established in 1887 University of Illinois Press academic journals Quarterly journals {{Psychology-journal-stub