School of Applied Health and Educational Psychology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA.
Int J Psychol. 2012;47(1):76-87. doi: 10.1080/00207594.2011.614618. Epub 2011 Oct 5.
Internationalizing psychology is an important component of current globalization trends. American textbooks on the history of psychology and introductory psychology were surveyed for the presence of historical and contemporary important Russian psychologists to assess the current status of Russian-American crossfertilization. Of a list of 97 important Russian psychologists, as determined by the editors of the Russian journal Methodology and History in Psychology, less than 22% are mentioned in the reviewed texts. The most common names were Pavlov, Luria, and Vygotsky. As the internet is arguably the single most important factor affecting the increase of international communication and dissemination of knowledge, we also searched for these 97 names on various websites, most notably Wikipedia and Google. Forty-one internet sites contained some amount of biographical information about Russian psychologists. On Wikipedia, 14 Russian psychologists had articles documenting biographical information. We also developed a rubric to determine the amount of information available on the internet for these psychologists and compared Wikipedia's mean score with various other websites. Wikipedia pages on average had a significantly higher score than the rest of the internet. Recommendations to improve Russian coverage in America are provided and include: (1) developing pages on Wikipedia and other virtual venues highlighting Russian contributions, (2) soliciting articles for US journals from Russian psychologists, and (3) incorporating Russian contributions in introductory and historical textbooks. We provide a partial bibliography of Russian contributions that can be used by authors of such textbooks. We would like to thank Dr Viktor Fedorovich Petrenko and Dr Igor Nikolaevich Karitsky from the journal Methodology and History of Psychology for supplying the names of the Russian psychologists. We would also like to express our appreciation to Robert García for reviewing and editing an earlier version of this manuscript.
将心理学国际化是当前全球化趋势的一个重要组成部分。本研究调查了美国心理学史和心理学导论教材中是否提及历史上和当代重要的俄国心理学家，以评估俄美文化交流的现状。在《心理学的方法与历史》杂志编辑确定的 97 位重要俄国心理学家中，只有不到 22%在被调查的教材中被提及。最常见的名字是巴甫洛夫、鲁利亚和维果茨基。由于互联网可能是影响国际交流和知识传播增加的唯一最重要因素，我们还在各种网站上搜索了这 97 个名字，最著名的是维基百科和谷歌。41 个网站包含了一些俄国心理学家的传记信息。在维基百科上，有 14 位俄国心理学家的文章记录了他们的生平信息。我们还制定了一个评分标准，以确定这些心理学家在互联网上的信息量，并比较了维基百科的平均得分与其他各种网站的得分。维基百科页面的平均得分明显高于其他网站。我们提出了一些增加美国对俄国心理学关注度的建议，包括：（1）在维基百科和其他虚拟场所建立网页，突出俄国的贡献；（2）从俄国心理学家那里征集美国期刊的文章；（3）在心理学导论和历史教材中纳入俄国的贡献。我们提供了一个俄国贡献的部分参考书目，供这类教材的作者使用。我们要感谢《心理学的方法与历史》杂志的 Viktor Fedorovich Petrenko 博士和 Igor Nikolaevich Karitsky 博士提供俄国心理学家的名字。我们还要感谢 Robert García 博士审阅和编辑本文的早期版本。
