Download or read book Psychology, Science, and History written by Dean Keith Simonton and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a scientific way to assess the validity of generalizations about historical events? Can we test psychological hypotheses about human behavior? In this book the author describes how the emerging field of historiometry provides such tests by applying quantitative analyses to historical data about representative people and events.