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Informationen zum Autor Rom Harré is a Fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington, DC Klappentext In the last decade, many diverse streams of thought have come together in an international movement to reject the traditional view that a `scientific' psychology must rely on an experimental methodology. Underpinning this movement is the principle that the main characteristics of human life are best understood as produced through discourse. This `discursive' psychology has found adherents across the range of psychological disciplines and has ushered in a completely revised understanding of the subject. This volume shows how to put these theoretical and methodological insights to work in the investigation of concrete problems in psychology. The internationally renowned contributors re-examine a range of traditional psychological topics, from decision-making, memory and attribution to emotions, learning and the self, and in the process map out the foundations of a new psychology. `This book is a fascinating collection of strands woven together to give a picture of how discursive methods provide a more detailed and fuller understanding of various phenomena which have long been the focus of psychological activity... it provides the reflective practitioner with new ways of looking at existing problems, and it may lead to a re-evaluation of the way we see and understand our world. Many of the chapters touch on issues which are central to our work as psychologists; it is invigorating to explore alternative constructions and therefore I recommend this book' - British Psychological Society Division of Educational and Child Psychology Newsletter Zusammenfassung This text shows how to put discursive theoretical and methodological insights to work in the investigation of concrete problems in psychology. A range of traditional psychological topics are examined! from decision-making! memory and attributions to emotions! learning and the self. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction - Rom Harr[ac]e and Peter Stearns Psychology as Discourse Analysis PART ONE: DISMANTLING THE INNER/OUTER DISTINCTION: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTION, MEMORY AND EXOTIC COGNITIVE STATES Remembering - Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter Emotion - Peter Stearns Constructing Divinity - Nancy C Much and Manamohan Mahapatra PART TWO: COGNITION IN PUBLIC: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DECISION AND ACTION Attribution - Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter Agentive Discourse - Rom Harr[ac]e Decision-Making - Donal Carbaugh PART THREE: THE LANGUAGE GAME OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION Language Development - Christina Erneling PART FOUR: SOME USES OF TRADITIONAL METHODS Emotions and Discursive Norms - Muriel Egerton Pictorial Discourse and Learning - Sandra L Calvert ...
