Abstracts of scientific literature constitute an important link in the exchange of information in science, both on the national and, in particular, the international level. Strange as it may be, historians of North American psychology are all but unaware of the existence of a large body of abstracts—close to 2000—written in German by German psychologists and specialists in closely allied fields, and covering the relevant writings of the early 1920s. To the surprise of just about everybody, the abstracts were published in the Psychological Bulletin and constitute a fascinating facet of the “prehistory” of the journal, Psychological Abstracts, founded in 1927.
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