Stimulated by the ideas of previous thinkers, such as Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Friedrich Herbart, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Wilhelm von Humboldt (with his ideas about comparative linguistics), the psychologist Moritz Lazarus (1851) and the linguist Heymann Steinthal founded the Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft (Journal for Cultural Psychology and Linguistics) in 1860, which gave this field its name. Wundt (1888) critically analysed the, in his view, still disorganised intentions of Lazarus and Steinthal and limited the scope of the issues by proposing a psychologically constituted structure. The cultural psychology of language, myth, and customs were to be based on the three main areas of general psychology: imagining and thought, feelings, and will (motivation). The numerous mental interrelations and principles were to be researched under the perspective of cultural development. Apperception theory applied equally for general psychology and cultural psychology. Changes in meanings and motives were examined in many lines of development, and there are detailed interpretations based on the emergence principle (creative synthesis), the principle of unintended side-effects (heterogony of ends) and the principle of contrast (see section on Methodology and Strategies).
stimulated by the ideas of previous thinkers such as johann gottfried herder johann friedrich herbart georg wilhelm friedrich hegel and wilhelm von humboldt (with his ideas about comparative linguistics) the psychologist moritz lazarus (1851) and the linguist heymann steinthal founded the zeitschrift für völkerpsychologie und sprachwissenschaft (journal for cultural psychology and linguistics) in 1860 which gave this field its name wundt (1888) critically analysed the in his view still disorganised intentions of lazarus and steinthal and limited the scope of the issues by proposing a psychologically constituted structure the cultural psychology of language myth and customs were to be based on the three main areas of general psychology imagining and thought feelings and will (motivation) the numerous mental interrelations and principles were to be researched under the perspective of cultural development apperception theory applied equally for general psychology and cultural psychology changes in meanings and motives were examined in many lines of development and there are detailed interpretations based on the emergence principle (creative synthesis) the principle of unintended side-effects (heterogony of ends) and the principle of contrast (see section on methodology and strategies)