Is Psychology related to history

Answer 1

In present day terms, history and psychology are not really related. However, history allows psychologists to study how human and animal behavior has changed throughout the years. Examples of this would include the study of Adolf Hitler before and during World War II and the study of Napoleon.

Answer 2

Not really. Psychology is the study of the human mind and behaviour, generally only at the individual level.

History is a combination of recording prior events and making determinations of the causes and effects such past events had. History is mostly concerned at the macro level - that is, while it records the actions of certain important peoples, it does not concern itself with anyone other than the exceptional person, being mostly focused on large scale trends and happenings.

The term "Psychohistory" was invented by Issac Asimov for his Foundation series of novels, and proposed that psychological analysis techniques could be used on very large masses of humans to predict future behavior. While there is certainly some consideration of psychological methods by historians when analyzing past events (and, in particular, when trying to explain the actions of certain important individuals), the study of "history" is NOT in any way concerned with predicting future trends or actions. For that kind of tea-leaf reading, talk to the political scientists (or, to a lesser extent, anthropologists and sociologists).