Is a Scientific Revolution Taking Place in Psychology?

Abstract

I make no pretence of being a philosopher of science, nor even a historian of psychology. I venture the following only by virtue of having made some observations while being intimately involved in a particular phase of the history of psychology, and I find those observations closely related to at least one important analysis of the manner in which science develops. The non-American psychologist may well wonder at the end what all the fuss is about, since behaviourism has never been as strong on the Eastern side of the Atlantic Ocean as it has been on mine, where Guthrie, Tolman, Hull, Spence, and Skinner (to name but a few of the outstanding behaviourists) have held forth as descendants of John B. Watson. My plan in this paper is to try to apply to the field of experimental psychology1 the analysis of the characteristics of science (and, more particu-

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