Psychohistory (fictional science)

For the study of the psychological motivation of historical and current events, see psychohistory.

Psychohistory is a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe which combines history, sociology, and mathematical statistics to make general predictions about the future behavior of very large groups of people, such as the Galactic Empire. It was first introduced in the four short stories (1942–1944) which would later be collected as the 1951 novel Foundation.[1][2]

  1. ^ Cajani, Luigi (2016). "Il ritorno di Hari Seldon. Dalla psicostoriografia alla cliodinamica". Historia Magistra (19): 96–104. doi:10.3280/hm2015-019009. ISSN 2036-4040.
  2. ^ Phillips, Nelson; Zyglidopoulos, Stelios (1999). "Learning from Foundation: Asimov's Psychohistory and the Limits of Organization Theory". Organization. 6 (4): 591–608. doi:10.1177/135050849964002. ISSN 1350-5084. S2CID 145493820.