Discursive psychology in practice

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Discursive psychology in practice

edited by Rom Harré and Peter Stearns

Sage Publications, 1995

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Bibliography: p. [205]-216

Includes index

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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.

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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

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