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Serge Nicolas, Juan Segui, Ludovic Ferrand
This paper provides a detailed account of the origins of the french centenarian journal L'Année Psychologique. This journal is presented in the context of the time. The history of the founding of several german (Wundt's Philosophische Studien ; Ebbinghaus and König' s Zeitschrift für Psychologie) and american journals (Hall's American Journal of Psychology ; Baldwin and Cattell's Psychological Review) are first exposed. Then, the specific problems associated with the creation of a psychological journal in France are presented. Indeed, the origin of « Année Psychologique » is inseparable from the institutional and intellectual context of the time in France. The names of Théodule Ribot (1839-1916), Henry Beaunis (1830-1921) and Alfred Binet (1857-1911) are closely associated to the journal. Beaunis, member of the school of Nancy, proposed to Ribot the creation of the first French laboratory of experimental psychology (1889). Under Beaunis' direction, this laboratory was established at the Sorbonne in Paris but was in fact dependent on another structure, L'École pratique des hautes études (EPHE). In 1893, the works of the laboratory were first published in a yearly review entitled Travaux du Laboratoire de psychologie physiologique (2 vol. : 1893-1894). Alfred Binet (1857-1911), who joined the laboratory in 1891, was not satisfied by the form of this publication. With Beaunis' agreement, Binet created L'Année Psychologique in 1894 in order to develop the laboratory's reputation for research. This new yearly review was first published in 1895 and contained original papers, general reviews and book reports. We present the evolution and vicissitudes of the journal from 1895 to 1912 noting the editors who followed (Piér on, Fraisse, Noizet, Segui), who have also been directors of the Laboratory of Experimental Psychology in Paris.
