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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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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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Descriptive Moral Psychology

2017
This chapter defines descriptive moral psychology as any psychological research that investigates the cognitive and emotional foundations of the patterns of behaviour that are described by an example of hard-question social theory. Descriptive moral psychology therefore studies the psychological dimensions of the patterns of behaviour which have their
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Why we need descriptive psychology

European Journal of Philosophy, 2021
AbstractThis article defends the thesis that in theorizing about the mind we need to accord first‐person (“introspective” or “reflective”) judgments about experience a “selective provisional trust.” Such an approach can form part of a descriptive psychology. It is here so employed to evaluate some influential interpretations of research on attention to
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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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ODD (observation- and description-deprived) psychological research

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2010
AbstractMost psychological research consists of experiments that put people in artificial situations that elicit unnatural behavior whose ecological validity is unknown. Without knowing the psychocultural meaning of experimental situations, we cannot interpret the responses of WEIRD people, let alone people in other cultures.
Tage S, Rai, Alan, Fiske
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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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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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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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Historical ontology and psychological description.

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 2009
The author describes and examines Ian Hacking’s approach to historical ontology and its application to psychological description. Historical ontology is concerned with the study of phenomena that come in and out of being. Phenomena under psychological description not only are historical, but also are particularly susceptible to what Hacking calls ...
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