2024 年 42 巻 2 号 p. 213-218
This article is concerned about those records which are historically related with foundation of the Japanese Psychonomic Society. The authors are concerned with the Colloquium on Perception, the Young Perceptionists’ Seminar (YPS) and the Chiba Seminar on Perception (CSP) as its forerunners. Attention is paid on the name of society. The Japanese Psychonomic Society has its uniqueness in that it encompasses a broad spectrum of experimental psychology, viewing perception, emotion, learning, behavior, etc. as an inseparable unity within Psychonomic science. In the paper, it also mentioned the impact of paradigm shifts that occurred in the 20th century and the subdivision of specific fields on the establishment of academic societies.