Psychological science versus the science-humanism antinomy: Intimations of a significant science of man.

Koch, Sigmund

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“…Difficulties can cause these students to reevaluate their choice of law and chastise themselves for choosing a means that turned out to be a dead end. Koch (1956Koch ( , 1961 suggests that while performing an intrinsically motivated activity, individuals become fully absorbed in the activity and committed to it (Csikszentmihalyi, 1975). More recently, Brickman (in 1preparation)argues that intrinsic motivation is a critical aspect of the commitment-building process.…”

Section: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handling the Stress of Looking for a Job in Law School: The Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation, Internal Attributions, Relations with Others, and Happiness

Abbey

Dunkel-Schetter²,

Brickman³

1983

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

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Section: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Handling the Stress of Looking for a Job in Law School: The Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation, Internal Attributions, Relations with Others, and Happiness

Abbey

Dunkel-Schetter²,

Brickman³

1983

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

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“…The mind, consciousness, imagery, emotion, all of these are the subject of renewed and vigorous attack which is depending largely upon objective operations for obtaining reports of inner, subjective experiences. All of the foregoing and more are considered by Koch (1961) in his bold recipe for a future psychology which would unify the sciences and humanities by coming to terms with the great issues of human concern within an objective framework.…”

Section: The Return To the Great Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology as a Science of Inner Experience

Bergin

1964

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

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THE field of psychology originally grew out of concerns with intimately human and ultimately philosophical issues. The natural history of its development from philosophy and theology (Boring, 1950) hardly requires further documentation, but central to the present thesis is the assumption that psychology, indeed, came into being partly in response to the desire to explain and guide the most profound and practical qualities of human experience.There has been a significant period of estrangement from such involvements which is indelibly marked in our history by the behavioristic revolution against the subjective and experiential (Hebb, 1960). No matter how the future may evaluate it, behaviorism and its descendants have been the life-blood of American psychology. Regardless of our current preoccupations or our investments in new pathways, it is this fact that has made the following facetious remark such a poignant commentary upon our scientific past: "American psychology first lost its soul, then its mind, and finally its consciousness, but it still behaved" (Waters, 1958).Because of a continuing commitment to the essentials of this behavioristic trend, academic American psychology has had a tendency to turn away from issues of significance for a comprehensive science of man. It seems that the field moved away from those issues perhaps with due cause, but like the prodigal son is now returning with its hard won independence and sophistication to the basic issues of human living it once left. While an estrangement from the weightier dimensions of human experience may have been a temporary necessity during the operational-behavioristic revolution, it is unacceptable as an enduring trait if we are to treat systematically the basic problems which have been spurned as mentalistic and, therefore, misleading for an objective science. Fortunately, the repercussions of the behavioristic revolt have settled and their positive contributions have been absorbed into the main stream of psychological science. Psychology

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“…Allport (I9l;7) summed up this problem in his charge that psychology's addiction to the machine model, and its attendant preoccupation v;ith lower animals as ideal subjects, has resulted in an inability on the part of systematic psychology to adequately accommodate the most' important aspects of human behavior -moral nature and social skills. This sentiment hrs been expressed more recently by Koch (1961), who insists that major psychological problems require the degree of sensitivity to the subtleties of individual experience identified with the humanities. The physicalistic orientation of psychologists also has been accompanied by a preoccupation on their part with situational variables and an ignoring of value properties intrinsic in behavior itself.…”

Section: The Foint Of View Of the Experimental Psychologistmentioning

confidence: 99%