From Clay Feet to New Psychology: Starting the Move

Valsiner, Jaan

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“…Simultaneously, there have been devastating critiques of the epistemological and theoretical foundations of much of quantitative psychology (Eronen and Bringmann, 2021;Richters, 2021;Uher, 2023). A coherent and productive future for psychological research will likely involve embracing and utilizing epistemological positions and methodologies beyond scientific realism and quantification (Valsiner, 2020;Sanbonmatsu et al, 2023). Marginalizing work using qualitative approaches is likely to be harmful to the discipline as a whole in the future and represents a form of gatekeeping with significant long-term implications.…”

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Research assessment using a narrow definition of “research quality” is an act of gatekeeping: A comment on Gärtner et al. (2022)

Hostler

2024

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Gärtner et al. (2022) propose a system for quantitatively scoring the methodological rigour of papers during the hiring and promotion of psychology researchers, with the aim of advantaging researchers who conduct open, reproducible work. However, the quality criteria proposed for assessing methodological rigour are drawn from a narrow post-positivist paradigm of quantitative, confirmatory research conducted from an epistemology of scientific realism. This means that research conducted from a variety of other approaches, including constructivist, qualitative research, becomes structurally disadvantaged under the new system. The implications of this for particular fields, demographics of researcher, and the future of the discipline of psychology are discussed.

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Research assessment using a narrow definition of “research quality” is an act of gatekeeping: A comment on Gärtner et al. (2022)

Hostler

2024

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“…This, perhaps, could inspire theorising in cultural psychology: on the one side, it opens interesting avenues to reflect on the subjective sense of time in the course of life, distinct from physical time, and especially in ageing; on the other hand, beyond the illusion of progress of psychological science, and the awareness of the historico-cultural context of mind, it may invite us to examine theoretical ideas about humans and mind which maintain their validity over time. At times, we learn more by dialoguing with past thinkers and psychologists (Valsiner, 2007(Valsiner, , 2012(Valsiner, , 2020b than by reinventing the wheel.…”

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The wind of thinking

Zittoun

2022

Culture & Psychology

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The Life of the Mind (1978) opens with a reflection of thinking. By thinking, Hannah Arendt means our capacity to withdraw from the world so as to reflect about the meaning of things. Thinking is an activity with no results in itself: searching for meaning, it cannot reach a goal, as any meaning hence produced can only be questioned again. Thinking is made possible through imagination, and demands the use of language and metaphors. It also has to be part of a form of inner dialogue – a moment in which we become two-in-one. Hence, Arendt seems to define thinking as a dynamic, mediated dialogical process of meaning making. In this paper, I first situate Arendt’s reflection on thinking within her life work. I then present her main propositions: that thinking is not knowing; that it demands a form of withdrawal; that it implies imagination; that it is mediated by language and metaphors; that it is a form of inner dialogue; and that it escapes time. Finally, I examine some of the implications of this approach to thinking for contemporary cultural psychology.

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Young

2021

Causality and Neo-Stages in Development

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From Clay Feet to New Psychology: Starting the Move

Cited by 8 publications

References 25 publications

Research assessment using a narrow definition of “research quality” is an act of gatekeeping: A comment on Gärtner et al. (2022)

Research assessment using a narrow definition of “research quality” is an act of gatekeeping: A comment on Gärtner et al. (2022)

The wind of thinking

Literature Review 2020

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