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Theory & Psychology Journal
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The paper explores issues of fate, chance, time, agency and destiny in therapy. The theoretical perspective is literary and deconstructive. It is suggested that therapy, like literature, is a setting for the unfolding of narrative destiny. In a therapeutic narrative the past brea...
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This paper concerns Jean Piaget's (1896–1980) philosophy of science and, in particular, the picture of scientific development suggested by his theory of genetic epistemology. The aims of the paper are threefold: (1) to examine genetic epistemology as a theory concerning the growt...
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Since its inception as science, psychology has generated a rhetoric of 'rigor' concerning the ideal characteristics of its inquirers. An early emphasis on experimental exactitude expanded, by the 1930s, to a conception that saw the first-year graduate student also as a mature the...
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A hypothesis on the physiological conditions for the occurrence of phenomenal states is presented. It is suggested that the presence of phenomenal states depends on the rate at which neural assemblies are formed. Unconsciousness and various disturbances of phenomenal consciousnes...
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Unlike his ideas about education and philosophy, John Dewey's psychology has been largely neglected. This article begins the rediscovery of his transactional psychology by seeking a synthesizing reading of those of his works that pertain to psychology. The article first outlines ...
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In “The acculturated brain,” his critical analysis of the current brain hype, Kenneth Gergen concludes that we should consider the brain primarily as an instrument for achieving culturally constructed ends, and challenge the determining power of the brain with the question “Could...
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The formal and psychological requirements of semiosis or sign action is discussed. It is shown that, at the formal level, systems of signs are best accounted for in terms of Peirce's semiotic triad of sign, object and interpretant, as well as his view that systems of signs are ge...
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This article aims to explore the scope of a Situated and Embodied Social Psychology (ESP). At first sight, social cognition seems embodied cognition par excellence. Social cognition is first and foremost a supra-individual, interactive, and dynamic process (Semin & Smith, 2013). ...
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Evolutionary psychology invokes the concept of a mismatch between the past and the present with regard to characteristics of the environment whilst maintaining that human minds are comprised of the same psychological adaptations. This paper addresses the question 'how do "old" ad...
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In this article we trace the historical transformations of the word 'honor' in Western cultures as initially an extrinsic conception equivalent to reputation and social status and later as a moral category independent of external reference. The virtue of 'honor' is a window into ...
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The possibility or impossibility of quantitative measurement in psychology has important ramifications for the nature of psychology as a discipline. Trendler's (2009) argument for the impossibility of psychological measurement suggests a general and potentially fruitful strategy ...
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The paper attempts to overcome an abstract juxtaposition of human beings and technology and to develop an understanding of the technological mediation of human subjectivity and the inner relation between sociability and materiality. In contrast to the widespread notion of technol...
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To answer the interaction problem, dual-process theories of reasoning must explain how seemingly disparate reasoning systems affect each other and underlie the apparent unity of subjective experience. Wastell (2014) proposes complex emergence modular theory, which asserts that co...
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Over the last two decades theorists and therapists have explored and consolidated discursive and relational approaches to therapy based on social constructionist, dialogic, and narrative thinking. Meanwhile in mainstream psychology and psychiatry a modern scientific-realist epist...
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Scientific growth is described, in evolutionist terms, as a two-stage process involving a rather loose stage of theory creation and a subsequent, much tighter process of theory testing. Scientific methodology is largely confined to the latter stage, while the creative process of ...
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In this two-part publication, we compare two paradigms-statistical positivism and critical scientific realism-in their application to research on academic motivation. In the first part, the propositions of statistical positivism and their applications to psychological research ar...
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