Research Catalog

Title

Psychology's territories : historical and contemporary perspectives from different disciplines / editors, Mitchell G. Ash, Thomas Sturm ; [under the auspices of the] Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Ash, Mitchell G.
• Sturm, Thomas, 1967-
• Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Description

xxviii, 374 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Psychology
• Psychology > history
• Psychological Techniques
• Psychology > History
• Psychological Theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Psychological thought and practice - historical and interdisciplinary perspectives / Mitchell G. Ash -- 1. The "fluctuations of attention" between physiology, experimental psychology and psycho-technical application / Sven Luders -- 2. Causality, intentionality, and the causation of intentions : the problematic boundary / Jochen Brandtstadter -- 3. A critique of free will : psychological remarks on a social institution / Wolfgang Prinz -- 4. Freedom and science! : the presumptuous metaphysics of free-will disdainers / Michael Heidelberger -- 5. Governing by will : the shaping of the will in self-help manuals / Sabine Maasen -- 6. Scientific selves : discerning the subject and the experimenter in experimental psychology in the United States, 1900-1935 / Jill Morawski -- 7. The self : colonization in psychology and society / Kenneth J. Gergen -- 8. The self between philosophy and psychology : the case of self-deception / Thomas Sturm -- 9. What is a psychological instrument? / Horst Gundlach -- 10. Asking questions : measurement in the social sciences / Fritz Strack and Norbert Schwarz -- 11. Can the psyche be visualized by the neurosciences? / Gerhard Roth, Thomas F. Munte and Hans-Jochen Heinze -- 12. Brain imaging methods and the study of cognitive processes : potentials and limits / Rainer M. Bosel -- 13. Mind reading, brain mirror, neuroimaging : insight into the brain or the mind? / Michael I. Hagner -- 14. Tools = theories = data? : on some circular dynamics in cognitive science / Gerd Gigerenzer and Thomas Sturm -- 15. Reflexivity revisited : changing psychology's frame of reference / James H. Capshew.

ISBN

• 080586136X (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780805861365 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0805861378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780805861372 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1410614905 (e book)
• 9781410614902 (e book)

LCCN

2006016213

OCLC

• ocm69028056
• 69028056
• SCSB-5370635

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Columbia University Libraries