Le pagine sono ispirate al lavoro di Marcos Emanoel Pereira (Un. Federal da Bahia, Brazil) ma sono arricchite via via da diversi contributi
 Per facilitare la lettura , la Cronologia è divisa in 4 parti:
Dal 600 a.C. al 1594 | dal 1600 al 1899 | dal 1900 al 1949 | dal 1950 al 2000
Le date e gli autori sorprendenti sono segnati dal fondo bianco | i links - non tutti funzionanti - rimandano ad approfondimenti
Gli eventi accaduti in Brasile sono scritti in verde scuro | in Europa sono scritti in rosso scuro |
in America sono scritti in blu scuro  |
in Asia sono scritti in arancione | in Africa sono scritti in lilla | in Australia sono scritti in verde prato
CronoPsicologia dal 1950 al 2000
1950
Second edition of Boring's A History of Experimental Psychology Adorno / Frenkel-Brunswick, Levinson & Sanford publish  The
Authoritarian Personality
/ Theodor Newcomb publishes Social Psychology / George Homans publishes The Human Group / Alan Turing publishes Computing machinery and  intelligence /Robert Bales introduces the Interactional Process Analysis / Established the Mexican Society of Psychology / Established at the Central University of Ecuador the Institute of
Psychology
/ The Israel Psychological Association is established
1951
The International Union of Psychological Science (IUPS), later International
Union of Psychological Sciences
(IUPsyS) is
founded /
The Interamerican Society of Psychology is founded in Mexico / The Institute of Psychology Chinese Academy of Science is founded
1952
Egon Brunswick publishes The conceptual framework of psychology / Salomon Asch publishes Social Psychology / Frederic Bartlett publishes Think and to Conceive: Experiments of Practical psychology The Spanish Psychological Society is established / The Japanese Educational Psychology Association is established
1953
The American Association of Psychology publishes the first Code of Ethics of Psychologists / B. F. Skinner publishes Science and Human Behavior / Leon Festinger and Daniel Katz publish Research methods in the behavioral sciences / C. Hovland, I. Janis and H. Kelley  publish Communication and persuasion: psychological studies of opinion change / The Sociedad de Psicologia del Uruguai  is established / A postgraduate school of psychology at theUniversity of Madridis established / Iraj Ayman establishes the Testing and Vocational Guidance Unit at theU.S. Technical Operation Mission in Tehran
1954
The  Brazilian Association of the Psychologists is established / In the journal Arquivos Brasileiros de Psicotécnica a law project about the formation and the regulation of the psychologist's profession is published / Gordon Allport publishes The nature of prejudice / Leon Festinger postulates the theory of social comparison process/ Abraham Maslow develops a hierarquical theory of human personality in the book Motivation and Personality / B. F. Skinner demonstrates at the University of Pittsburgh a  machine designed to teach arithmetic, using an instructional program / The journal Acta Psiquiatrica y Psicologicade America Latina is established in Argentina / The Sociedad Peruana de Psicologia is established
1955
Social psychologist Richard Crutchfield publishes the article Conformity and Character / George Kelly publishes Psychology of Personal Constructs / Lee J. Cronbach and Paul E. Meehl's article Construct Validity in Psychological Tests  was published
Established the Federacion Colombiana de Psicologia (Colombian Federation of Psychology) / Established the formation in psychology at the Universidad San Marcos at Peru / The Journal of Analytical Psychology is established in London / South-African psychiatrist David Cooper arrives in England / A  psychology department  is established at the University of
Queensland
, Australia
1956
Jerome Bruner and collaborators publish A study of thinking / George A. Miller publishes in Psychological Review his famous article on the magic number seven / Salomon Asch publishes his studies about conformity / U. T. Place postulates in the article Is Consciousness a Brain Process?,  the first  modern statement of the identity theory / Swiss psychiatrist Ludwig Biswanger publishes Three Forms of Frustrated existence: Extravagance, Idiosyncrasy and Affectation / The journal  CeskolovenskaPsychologie (Czechoslovak Psychology) is founded / Law No. 198 regulates the clinical practice of psychologists
in Egypt
1957
Leon Festinger publishes Theory of the Cognitive Dissonance / B.F. Skinner and Charles B. Ferster publish, after five years of
collaboration, the book Schedules of Reinforcement
/ B. F. Skinner publishes Verbal behavior / H. J. Eysenck publishes The effects of psychotherapy: an evaluation / L. Cronbach publishes The two disciplines of scientific psychology / The Instituto de Investigaciones Psicologicas is founded at theUniversidad de Costa Rica / The Finnish Psychological Society  is established
1958
Allen Newell, Marvin E. Shaw, and Herbert A. Simon's article Elements of a Theory of Human Problem Solving, the  first exposition of the information-processing approach in psychology / Herbert Feigl publishes The 'Mental' and the 'Physical' / Howard A. Rusk publishes Rehabilitation Medicine, in which his suggests that approximately one-half of physically disabled adults would require psychological services to attain a reasonable adaptation / Donald Broadbent publishes Perception and Communication / Offered in France a doctorate with an option in psychology / The Czechoslovak Psychological Society and the Slovak Psychological Society  were founded / T he Pattern Completion Test (PATCO), devised by the South African
National Institute of Personal Research, is applied  to nomadic Bushmen during the first and second(1959) Kalahari expeditions
1959
Wolfgang Köhler publishes Gestalt psychology today John W. Thibaut / and Harold H. Kelley's book The Social Psychology of
Groups was published /
J. P. Guilford's article The three faces of intellect  was published in the American Psychologist / Noam Chomsky publishes his revision of the book Verbal Behavior previously published by B. F. Skinner / J. J. C. Smart publishes the article Sensations and Brain Process / Iraj Ayman establishes the Iran's first psychological department at the National Teacher's College in Tehran / In Tananarive, Madagascar, the C.C.T.A/C.S.A. Meeting of Specialists of the Basic Psychology of Africanand Madagascan Populations is held
1960
G. Sperling publishes its famous article about the sensorial memory / Robert Watson publishes the article History of Psychology: a Neglected Area / Milton Rokeach publishes The open and the closed mind / First school of professional psychology is established in Mexico / The Japanese Social Psychology Association is established
1961
First edition of Journal of Humanistic Psychology / Carl Rogers publishes On becoming a person The Handbook of Clinical Psychology,/ edited by Benjamin Wolman, was first published Rensis Likert's book New Patterns of Management , a landmark in organizational psychology, was published / Michael Argyle and Janet Dean's article Eye-Contact, Distance, and Affiliation   was published in Sociometry / Hans Toch publishes Legal and Criminal Psychology , the first psycholegal textbook / A psychology program is established at the University of las Villas, Cuba
1962
Creation of  bachelor courses and  the profession of psychologist The University of São Paulo hires / Fred Keller Michael Murphy and Richard Price found the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, in California / The Psychological Association of the Philipinnes is established
  1963
Pedro Parafita Bessa creates the course of Psychology at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais / Sigmund Koch publishes Psychology: a Study of a Science / Neil Smelser publishes Theory of Collective Behavior / J. A. Ritchie publishes in Wellington, New Zealand the book The Making of a Maori: A case study of a changing country
1964
Fred Keller, Carolina M. Bori, Rodolpho Azzi e J. G. Sherman install the Department of Psychology of the Universidade de Brasília / Stanley Milgram publishes Obedience to authority / Emergence of humanistic psychology as "third force" in psychology / T. W.Wann edits Behaviorism and Phenomenology: contrasting bases for modern psychology / The Union Cubana de Psicologia  is established / The Sociedad Salvadorena de Psicologia is established / The yugoslav historian of psychology Kruno Kristic publishes in the journal Acta Instituti Psychologici Universitatis Zagabrensis
the article Marko Marulik. The autor of the term  “psychology”
/ The Association of Romanian Psychologists is established
1965
The military regime dissolves the Department of Psychology of the Universidade de Brasília / Roger Brown publishes Social Psychology / Robert Zajonc analises the process of social facilitation / The Journal for the History of Behavioural Sciences is founded / A conference held in Swampscott, Massachusetts, establishes the field of community psychology / The Asociación Panameña de Psicologos is established / T'Sao Jih-chang translate Woodward and Schlossberg's Experimental
Psychology  into Chinese
The / Pakistan Journal of Psychology is established / The first laboratory of experimental psychology in independent sub-saarian Africa  is established in Zambia
1966
J. J. Gibson publishes The senses considered as perceptual system / Jerome S. Bruner's book Studies in Cognitive Growth was published / Saul Sternberg's article High Speed Scanning in Human Memory  was published in Science / First master's program in humanistic psychology is established in the psychology department of the Sonoma State College / The first federal legislation to protect animal research subjects, The Animal Welfare Act, was enacted / Established the Sociedad Paraguaya de Psicologia / Psychology as banned as a university subject, the Institute of Psychology in Chinese Academic of Sciences is closed and the publication of psychology journals and books is ceased in China / The iranian psychologist A. A. Siyassi publishes in Persian the book Science of Mind or Psychology from the standpoint of education / The Australian Psychological Society is established
1967
The journal Revista Interamericana de Psicologia/Interamerican
Journal of Psychology is established /
Rollo May publishes Psychology and the Human Dillema / Hilary Putnam suggests the idea of multiple realizability of mental properties / Robert Watson establishes the first history of psychology PHD
program in the world
/ The department of psychology at the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo in Dominican Republic is established / Ulric Neisser  publishes Cognitive Psychology
1968 Abraham Maslow publishes Toward a Psychology of Being / The  International Encyclopedia of  the Social Sciences is
published / Established the Colegio de Psicólogos de Chile (union of psychologists) / Lourdes García-Averasturi establishes in Cuba the National Group of  Psychology / David Armstrong publishes A Materialistic Theory of Mind / Cheiron, the International Organizations for the History of the Behavioral and Social Sciences is established / The Department of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Psychological Society is established / The Psychological Association of Iran is established
/ The Korean Journal of Psychology is established / The Pakistan Psychological Association held its first meeting in Dhaka / A department of psychology is established in the University of Zambia
1969
Gregory Bateson publishes Schizophrenia and Family / Albert Bandura publishes Principles of Modification of the Behavior / Gardner Lindzey & Elliot Aronson publishes the second edition of the Handbook of Social Psychology / Joseph Wolpe publishes The practice of behavior therapy / Elizabeth Kubler-Ross publishes On the Death and Dying / Ruben Ardila founds in Colombia the Latin American Journal of Psychology / The Revista Argentina de Psicologia is established / Lewis Brandt and Wolfgang Metzer publish 'Reality,' What does it mean?
1970
The Association Humanistic Psychology creates the Humanistic Psychology Institute as an educational and research institute /The french psychologist Francois Lapointe publishes in the journal American Psychologist the article Origins and evolutions of  the term psychology / First International Invitation Conference on Humanistic Psychology in Amsterdam / Stanislav Kratochvil publishes in Czechoslovakia Psychotherapy: Approaches, Methods and research
1971
R. Shepard & J.Metzler publishes the article Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects / B. F. Skinner publishes Beyond Freedom and Dignity / H. Rimoldi establishes the Interdisciplinary Center of Research in Mathematical and Experimental Psychology / Italian psychiatrist Franco Basaglia publishes The Denied Institution / The Psychological Practices Act  governs the psychological practice in Zimbabwe
1972
A. Newell & H. Simon publish Human Problem Solving / Ron Harré and Paul Secord publish The Explanation of Social
Behavior
/ R. A. LeVine and D. T. Campbell publish Ethnocentrism / J. Israel and H. Tajfel publish The context of social psychology / J. R. Eiser and W. Stroebe publish Categorization and  social judgment / The Swiss psychiatrist Medard Boss founds in Zurich the Institute Analytic Existential of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic
1973
Established the Faculty of Psychology at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) / Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz and  Nikollaas Tinbergen receive the Nobel Prize in recognition of their studies on the behavior of the animals / A psychological licensing law was adopted in Norway
1974
The First Annual Convention of the American Psychology-Law Society is held / The Journal of Black Psychology  was first published by the Association of Black Psychologists / The Egyptian Association for Psychological Societies publishes the
first volume of the Egyptian Yearbook of Psychology / The Medical, Dental , and Supplementary Health Service Professions Act governs the profession of psychologist in South Africa
1975
Paul Feyerabend publishes Against the Method: Outline of   an anarchist theory of knowledge / Mary Henle publishes Gestalt psychology and gestalt therapy / The Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Psychology  is established at the Alberta University , Canada / The first college program in Community Psychology is offered by the psychology department of the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras / The Associacion Dominicana de Psicologia (Dominican Association of Psychology) is established / William Sahakian publishes History of Psychology
1976
The Latin American Association of Social  Psychology (ALAPSO) is established / V. Sexton and H. Misiak publish Psychology Around   the  World / J. Ehrenwald publishes A History of Psychotherapy / Psychology is recognized as a independent school at the University of Havana / The Colegio de Psicólogos de Bolivia is established / Ulric Neisser publishes Cognition and Reality / M. Billig publishes Social psychology and intergroup relations
1977
R. Schank & R. Abelson publish Scripts, Plans, Goals and Understanding / Alan Gauld & John Shotter publish  Human action and its psychological investigation / Joseph Rychlak publishes Psychology of Rigorous Humanism / Sheldon Stryker distinguishes between psychological and sociological social psychology / An article by a group of psychologist at Beijing University suggest the revival of psychology as an academic discipline / The Law of Psychologists regulates the profession of psychologistin Israel / Nixon and Taft publish Psychology in Australia: Achievements and Prospects
1978
Kelley and Thibaut publish Interpersonal relations: A theory of interdependence / The Laboratorio de Psicologia at the Universidad de Los Andes , Merida, Venezuela is founded / The journal Boletin de Psicologia  is founded in La Habana,
Cuba
/ The Federacion de Psicólogos de Venezuela is established / The Columbian Society of Psychology is established / A new universitary law reduces the time of study of psychology in Czechoslovakia from 5 to 4 years / The Chinese Society of Psychology is refounded
1979
J.J. Gibson  publishes The ecological approach to visual  perception / Lachman, Lachman & Butterfield publish Cognitive psychology and information processing: An introduction / The journal Revista Chilena de Psicologia is founded / The journal Psychologie und Gesellschaftskritik published two issues (1979/1980) on Psychology and Fascism containing several studies on psychology in Nazi Germany / The Belgian Federations of Psychologists  is established / The Greek Parliament promulges a law specifying the qualifications for the profession of psychologist
1980

M. J. Lerner publishes The belief in a just world / It is estimated that one out of ten doctorates granted in the United
States in psychology
/ John Searle presents in the article Minds, Brain, and Programs   the Chinese room argument / Ned Block publishes the first volume of  Readings in Philosophy of Psychology / The Colegio Oficial de Psicólogos (Union of Psychologist) is established in Spain / The Institute of Psychology of Bucharest  and the official teaching of psychology are abolished in Romaniabetween 1980 and 1989 / The Belgian Federation of Psychologist publishes its Code of Ethics

1981
M. Rosenzweig estimates the total number of psychologist in   the world to be 260,000 / American Psychological Association has approximately 50,500 members / The journal Revista de la Association Latinoamericana de Psicologia
Social  is established in Mexico /
J. C. Turner and H. Giles publish Intergroup behavior / Estabelecida a Federação Européia das Associações Profissionais de Psicólogos
1982
D. Kahneman, P. Slovic and  A. Tversky  publish Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases / David Marr publishes Vision: an investigation computational on the human representation and the processing of the visual information / The Humanistic Psychology Institute changes its name to the Saybrook Institute / The journal Revista de Historia de la Psicología is established in Spain / The Academy of Arabic Language in Cairo approves a dictionary of psychological terms
1983
John R. Anderson publishes The Architecture of Cognition / Jerry Fodor publishes The Modularity of the Mind / Law 58 legalizes the profession of psychologist in Colombia / The journal New Ideas in Psychology is established / The Japonese Journal of Clinical Psychology  is established / Established the Psychological Association of South Africa (PASA)
1984
Helmuth Krüger publishes Introduction to Social Psychology / S. T. Fiske and S. E. Taylor publish Social Cognition / Zenon Pylyshyn publishes Computation and Cognition / The journal Revista Cubana de Psicologia  is esblished in La
Habana, Cuba /
Robert Farr and Serge Moscovici publish Social representations / Over 400 students are reported to receive doctoral degree in psychology in India
1985
Gardner Lindzey & Elliot Aronson publish the third edition of  Handbook of Social Psychology / Howard Gardner publishes The new mind's science / Petr Rezek publishes anonymously in Prague Lectures on Phenomenological  Psychology / Law n. 85-772 defines the professional regulation of psychologists in France / The Japanese Industrial and Organizational Association is established / There are an estimated 58 academic psychologist in Nigeria and 22 in Cameroon
1986
McClelland, J. L. &  Rumelhart, D. E. publish the series of books Parallel Distributed Processing / A. Paivio publishes Mental Representations: a dual code approach / Robert Wyer, Jr. & Thomas Srull publish the article Human cognition in its social context / Willem Doise publishes Levels of explanation in social psychology / Psychological consultation becomes popular in China / China's "Humanistic Psychology Craze", especially its "Maslow Craze" gradually took shape, and through 1989 Maslow's books sell 557,900 copies / A. A. Shoarinejad publishes in Tehran A Dictionary of behavioral sciences
1987
An estimated 18,000  psychologists in France / The Pakistan Psychological Association publishes a report on
the standard for the practice of psychotherapy in Pakistan / Janak Pandey publishes the three volume book Psychology in India: The State of the Art / 815 people have professional register to work as psychologists in New Zealand
1988 An estimated 5,000  psychologists in Germany and 2,160 in Norway / Published in Hebrew language the journal Israel Quarterly of Psychology
1989 I. Altman publishes the article Centripetal and centrifugal trends in psychology / John Searle publishes Minds, brains, and science / A group of  experimental psychologists establishes the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Sciences / Diaz-Guerrero developes one of the most significant psychological projects of Mexico - Mexican Ethnopsychology / State Law No. 56 regulates the profession of psychologist in the Italy / The journal Psychology and Developing Societies at the University of Alahhabad, India is established
1990
Established the Union Peruvian of Psychologists 15,000 licensed psychologist in Mexico / Dalal estimates between 4,000 and 4,500 psychologists in India / An estimated 5,000 clinical psychologist in Japan
1991
There are 27.000 registered students of psychology in Mexico / The Association of Academic Unities in Psychology  is established in Argentina / Law 360/1990 regulates the profession of  psychologist in Austria
1992
Aproximately 10,000 people are working as psychologists in Argentina and 8,000 in Canada / The Law 30  regulates the graduate study in  psychology in Colombia / Aproximately 6,000 people are working as psychologists in Polland, 1,350 in Austria and 6,000 in Belgium / Aproximately 600 people are working as psychologists in the Pakistan, 5,000 in India and 2,500 in Israel / International Workshop on "Child Development and National Development" was organized in Yaounde,Camerun / An estimated 5,000 to 6,000 people are working as psychologists in Australia
1993
A. H. Eagly and S. Chaiken publish The psychology of attitudes / Roger Sperry publishes in American Psychologist the article The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution / Beijing Research Association of Healthy Personalities (BRAHP) and
Beijing People's Radio Station launched a radio program, "Healthy Personalities and Life"
1994
A total of 111 Brazilian Universities have psychology programs / The first National PsychologyCongress is held in Campos do Jordão / M. P. Zanna and J. M. Olson publish The psychology of prejudice: The Ontario Symposium, vol. 7 / The first Encontros Integradores de Psicologos del Mercosur is held in Montevideo / Roger Sperry dies / J. P. Leyens, V. Yzerbyt and G. Schadron publish  Stereotypes and social cognition / The Decrete concerning Health Care Professional regulates the title of
psychotherapist in Finland
1995
The second Encontros Integradores de Psicologos del Mercosur is held in Buenos Ayres / First issue of Psychology, Public Policy, And Law / Aproximately 1,200 people are working as psychologists in Colombia / The European Federation of Professional Psychologists Associaciation accepts the Meta-Code of Ethics
1996
Jaegwon Kin publishes Philosophy of Mind / Established the Guatemalan Association of  Psychology / A total of 59 Canadian Universities have psychology programs and approximately  10,000  psychologists are legally recognized   to practice
psychology in Canada /
Approximately  3,600  psychologists are legally recognized  to practice psychology in Cuba
1997
The IV Encontro Integrador dos Psicólogos do Mercosul  is held in Montevideo with participants of Federación de Psicologos de la Republica Argentina, Conselho Federal de Psicologia (Brasil), Colegio de Psicologos de Chile, Sociedad Paraguaya de Psicologia and Coordinadoria de Psicologos del Uruguay / Established the Union of Psychologists of Costa Rica / Joseph Wolpe and Hans Eysenck  die / S. Russel, P. Oakes, N. Ellemers e  S. A. Haslam publish The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life
1998
Approximately  3,700  psychologists are legally recognized  to practice psychology in Chile / An estimated 1,200 people are working as psychologists in Bolivia / An estimated 1,700  people are legally recognized  to practice psychology in Paraguay / Dies M. T. Bazany, one of the most important psychologist of Czechoslovakia
1999
Approximately 100,000 psychologists are legally recognized  to practice psychology in Brazil / Nise da Silveira, one of the most important brazilian junghian psychologist dies / Psychology in the Americas, edited by Modesto Alonso and Alice Eagly, was published by Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP)
2000
Held in Stockholm, Sweden, The XXVII International Congress of Psychology