Sexton 和Misiak(1984年9月)在他们所写的“美国心理学家和国外心理学”一文中指出:美国心理学存在着一种孤立主义。他们建议,美国教授们应该熟悉国外教科书和其它著作中涉及的国外的研究理论和综合材料。在科学院(the Academy of Sciences)赞助 Sexton and Misiak (September 1984) pointed out in their article entitled “American Psychologists and Foreign Psychology” that there exists an isolationism in American psychology. They suggested that American professors should be familiar with foreign research theories and syntheses involved in foreign textbooks and other writings. Sponsored by the Academy of Sciences