| Zero-Variable Theories and the Psychology of the Explainer 1990 Edition Contributor(s): Wicklund, Robert A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0387971653 ISBN-13: 9780387971650 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $94.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Personality - Medical |
| Dewey: 150.1 |
| LCCN: 89039733 |
| Physical Information: 156 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |