Beyond individual and group differences : human individuality, scientific psychology, and William Stern's critical personalism / James T. Lamiell.

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Main Author: Lamiell, James T.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: a lost star
  • Part I : Historical beginnings
  • The problem of individuality and the birth of a "differential" psychology
  • The narrowing of perspective in the proliferation of standardized testing and correlational research
  • The entrenchment of a "common trait" perspective on human individuality
  • Part II : Statistical thinking in the post-wundtian restructuring of scientific psychology
  • The emergence of a "neo-Galtonian" framework for psychological research : a historical sketch
  • Contemporary "nomotheticism" in within the neo-Galtonian framework: a methodological primer
  • Contemporary "nomotheticism" in critical perspective
  • Part III : Rethinking the problem
  • An introduction to critical personalism
  • Some models of personalistic inquiry in contemporary psychology
  • Our differences aside : persons, things, individuality, and community.