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Zero-Variable Theories and the Psychology of the Explainer

Zero-Variable Theories and the Psychology of the Explainer

Paperback

Medical ReferenceCognition

ISBN10: 1461279747
ISBN13: 9781461279747
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 28 2011
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In Zero-Variable Theories, Dr. Robert Wicklund invites the reader to consider the psychological perspective of the explainer. In examining the over-simplifications that have become dominant in modern psychology, the author points to such factors as competition with other explainers and pressure to offer and promulgate a unique explanation. The explainer is characterized as equating theory with simple, fixed categories, and as defending those categories as one would defend a personal territory, fending off competing explainers through mis-use of statistical devices. The end result is the formulation of theories that neglect the perspectives of those whose behaviors are to be explained, and which simultaneously exclude psychological variables.

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