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Investigating Psychology-Influenced Economic Models in Lab, Field, and Theory
, 2008 This thesis demonstrates the effectiveness of novel, psychology-influenced models of economics on traditional economic structures through the lab, field, and theory. Chapter 2 observes how subjects are able to solve the computationally difficult buffer stock savings model first for monetary earnings and then in terms of cola when thirsty.
Alexander L. Brown
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Field Theory In Psychology: Kurt Lewin.
, 2006 This chapter deals with a summary of two of Kurt Lewin's germinal ideas: the concept of need and the concept of goal. The nature of his concepts and his delineations of the task of scientific psychology were such as to operate against the separation of theories into those of learning, perception, personality, childhood and adolescence, or any other ...
Jacob S. Kounin
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Metatheory and Field Theory in Social Psychology: Relevance or Elegance?
Journal of Social Issues, 1992 Current common confusion about the nature of Lewin's field theory can be resolved by making a distinction between Lewin's psychological metatheory and his specific field theory. This clarification reveals a dilemma for social psychological theory: Either it must abandon that facet of Lewin's metatheory that is the source of theoretical elegance, or it ...
Martin Gold
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Field Theory and Experiment in Social Psychology: Autocratic and Democratic Group Atmospheres
American Journal of Sociology, 1939 The author illustrates briefly the type of research projects which may be expected to emerge from the field-theoretical formulation of sociological and sociopsychological problems. A "total behavior" technique of observation of group and individual child behavior is briefly described which attempts to record all maningful social behavior in its proper ...
Ronald Lippitt
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Field Theory In Science: Its Role As a Necessary and Sufficient Condition in Psychology
The Psychological Record, 1996 Whereas physics has evolved through three conceptual stages, the third being that of field theory, psychology has remained largely at the second stage, that of mechanistic or statistical correlation, and it has retained even some elements of the first stage, that of substance-property.
Noel W. Smith, Lance L. Smith
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Field theory: II. Some mathematical applications to comparative psychology.
Psychological Review, 1954 Willard E. Caldwell
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2010 Cognitive science of the last half-century has been dominated by the computational theory of mind and its picture of thought as information processing. Taking this picture for granted, the most prominent evolutionary theories of religion of the last fifteen years have sought to understand human religiosity as the product or by-product of universal ...
Nathaniel F. Barrett
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FIELD THEORIES AND STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 1959 openalex +2 more sources
The Place of Gestalt Psychology and Field Theories in Contemporary Learning Theory
Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 1964 Ernest R. Hilgard
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