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Field theory: II. Some mathematical applications to comparative psychology.
Psychological Review, 1954 Willard E. Caldwell
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Metaphor Analysis in Psychology—Method, Theory, and Fields of Application
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2000 The analysis of metaphors is a classical research theme in linguistics, but has received very little attention in psychological research so far. Metaphor analysis—as conceptualized in cognitive linguistics—is proposed here as a qualitative method for psychological research for several reasons.
Karin S. Moser
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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 and Experiment in Social Psychology: Concepts and Methods [PDF]
American Journal of Sociology, 1939 The field theoretical approach is instrumental in integrating divergent physiological, psychological, and sociological facts on the basis of their interdependence. To explain social behavior it is necessary to represent the structure of the total situation and the distribution of the forces in it.
Kurt Lewin
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FIELD THEORIES AND STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
British Journal of Statistical Psychology, 1959 openalex +2 more sources
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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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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