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The Pseudofundamental in Psychology: Psychologic and Psychologism

Psychological Inquiry, 1991
sadness (and of other terms for mental states) is at a minimum, there is an important sense in which it is conceivable for "sadness" to be different in India. At the very least we might discover that in one culture people experience "fatigue and heartaches," but not when valued things become unattainable, whereas in another culture people withdraw from
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The psychology of psychology: A thought experiment

Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2015
AbstractIn the target article, Duarte et al. allege that the lack of political diversity reduces research efficacy. We pose a thought experiment that could provide an empirical test by examining whether institutional review board (IRB) members, granting agencies, and journal reviewers filter scientific products based on political values, invoking ...
Stephen J. Ceci, Wendy M. Williams
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Psychology: The concept of psychology

1988
Philosophers and scientists of the Renaissance did not treat psychology, the philosophical study of the soul, as an independent discipline. Following the medieval tradition, they placed it within the broader context of natural philosophy, and they approached it, like the other sub-divisions of natural philosophy, through the works of Aristotle, notably
Katharine Park, Eckhard Kessler
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The unification of psychology and psychological organizations

Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2004
AbstractThe Tree of Knowledge is an imaginative attempt to construct a metatheoretical system that proposes to unify the discipline of psychology. However, it is limited in its appreciation of political factors, and so an optimistic view of the possibility of the system overlooks the power issues that beset the field. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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Psychologic or Psychological Esperanto?

Psychological Inquiry, 1991
(1991). Psychologic or Psychological Esperanto? Psychological Inquiry: Vol. 2, No. 4, pp. 339-342.
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Folk psychology’ is not folk psychology

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2006
This paper disputes the claim that our understanding of others is enabled by a commonsense or 'folk' psychology, whose 'core' involves the attribution of intentional states in order to predict and explain behaviour. I argue that interpersonal understanding is seldom, if ever, a matter of two people assigning intentional states to each other but emerges
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The Psychology of Replication and Replication in Psychology [PDF]

Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2012
Like other scientists, psychologists believe experimental replication to be the final arbiter for determining the validity of an empirical finding. Reports in psychology journals often attempt to prove the validity of a hypothesis or theory with multiple experiments that replicate a finding. Unfortunately, these efforts are sometimes misguided because
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Psychological birth and psychological catastrophe

2013
Inspired by Dr. Bion's work this chapter is based on psychoanalytic therapy with psychotic children and with the psychotic residues in neurotic children. It suggests that the situation described by Dr. Bion as a "psychological catastrophe" is the result of a premature or mismanaged "psychological birth " and that this causes the cognitive inhibition ...
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The psychology of teaching psychology

New Directions for Community Colleges, 1980
AbstractMuch of the psychology of teaching psychology involves capitalizing on students' eagerness for self‐disclosure and learning from their own experiences.
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No Psychology In - No Psychology Out

Psychologische Rundschau, 2003
Im letzten Heft dieser Zeitschrift haben uns fuhrende Vertreter der Biologischen Psychologie an ihren Visionen der Entwicklung des Faches teilhaben lassen. Dabei markieren sie den Weg, der uns davor bewahren soll, dass „die gesamte Psychologie rasch als Wissenschaft an Bedeutung verlieren (wird) und zu einem Studium fur fragwurdige Professionalitat von
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