| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 293 pages) |
| Contents |
Drifting my own way : following my nose and my heart / Elliot Aronson -- On stepping on land mines / Ellen Berscheid -- Diet, obesity, public policy, and defiance / Kelly D. Brownell -- Psychology is not an enclave / John Garcia -- My way / Howard Gardner -- An unwilling rebel / Jerome Kagan -- The dangers of memory / Elizabeth F. Loftus -- Doing psychology my way / William J. McGuire -- Challenging the traditional personality psychology paradigm / Walter Mischel -- Adventures in cognition : from Cognitive psychology to The rising curve / Ulric Neisser -- Moving forward by sticking your neck out / Robert Perloff -- Fighting the fads and traveling in the troughs : the value (as opposed to growth) approach to inquiry / Paul Rozin -- A funny thing happened on the way to the formulation : how I came to frame mental laws in abstract spaces / Roger N. Shepard -- It's absolutely impossible? A longitudinal study of one psychologist's response to conventional naysayers / Dean Keith Simonton -- It all started with those darn IQ tests : half a career spent defying the crowd / Robert J. Sternberg -- What would draw a basic scientist into Head Start (and why would he never leave)? / Edward Zigler |
| Summary |
In psychology as in other sciences and other fields, those who follow the crowd generally find the rewards--at least the more immediate ones-- to come much more easily and rapidly than do those who defy the crowd. This book shows firsthand the trials and tribulations, as well as the joys, of scientists who have chosen their own paths. It also provides positive role models for young (and older) scientists and encourages psychological scientists to stay true to their mission in their field. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Issuing Body |
Made available through: American Psychological Association's PsyBooks Collection |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Psychology -- Practice
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Psychotherapy -- Practice.
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Psychologists.
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Dissenters.
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Research Personnel -- psychology
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psychologists.
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dissenters.
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Dissenters
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Psychologists
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Psychology -- Practice
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Psychotherapy -- Practice
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sternberg, Robert J.
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American Psychological Association.
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