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An Overview of Descriptive Psychology

1985
Had the social construction of psychological science been different in the 1950s and 1960s there would have been no need for a separate discipline of descriptive psychology. However, in fact there was such a need and in fact descriptive psychology was evolved.
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An Exploration of the Role of Description in Psychology as a Descriptive Science

South African Journal of Psychology, 1989
From a phenomenological point of view psychology as a human science is a descriptive science. Psychology as a descriptive science and psychology as an explanatory science are two distinct types of science and should not be viewed as two phases of science.
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Descriptive Psychology and Historical Understanding

The American Journal of Psychology, 1978
C. P. D., Wilhelm Dilthey, R. M. Zaner, K. L. Heiges   +3 more
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Phenomenology as Descriptive Psychology

2020
Farber has suggested that Husserl’s works can be grouped, chronologically, into three broadly defined periods: a psychologistic period, a simple descriptive phenomenological period, and a transcendental phenomenological period (1940, p. 11). The psychologistic period consists of Husserl’s earliest writings through the Philosophy of Arithmetic, while ...
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Description in the Psychological Sciences

Representations, 2016
This essay uses the case of scientific psychology to explore modes of description and the broader objectives underlying these modes, reporting on both the complexities and potentials of psychological description. It examines the description techniques of the classic Milgram experiment and offers a redescription of the resulting data to show both how ...
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A Psychological Description of Leadership

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1930
Resume On nous donne une description de la capacite de diriger et une classification du sujet selon le type de cette capacite. On etudie cette capacite sous le nom de “Dynamic Infusive Leadership.” On definit celle-ci comme la capacite de diriger quand la personne qui dirige met en action une force chez les diriges laquelle exige l'action vers un but ...
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Phenomenology and Descriptive Psychology

2018
This chapter is about Husserl’s early phenomenology. It is divided into five parts. The first part is about the young Husserl’s years of study and his encounter with Brentano in Vienna and with Carl Stumpf in Halle. The second and third parts are meant to succinctly describe Husserl’s original contribution to Brentano’s philosophical program prior to ...
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Dilthey and Descriptive Psychology

1989
In the early part of the nineteenth century in Germany, the prevailing image of psychology was that of a therapeutic discipline concerned with the spiritual care (Seelensorge)of individuals.1As we have seen in the case of the Empiricists, however, a new question was raised with increasing frequency in the course of the century: the role of psychology ...
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Phenomenology as Descriptive Psychology

Symposium, 2012
Is phenomenology nothing else than descriptive psychology? In the irst edition of his Logical Investigations (LI), Husserl conceived of phenomenology as a description and analysis of the experiences of knowledge, unequivocally stating that “phenomenology is descriptive psychology.” Most interestingly, although the irst edition of the LI was the ...
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Genetic and Descriptive Psychology

1978
The themes discussed in the previous chapter all pertain to descriptive psychology. In this chapter I will show that Husserl attached himself to a certain tradition inaugurated by Brentano. The problematics embedded in the duality of genetic and descriptive psychology can perhaps be regarded as the driving force in the thinking of Husserl; after 1907 ...
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