Beyond individual and group differences : human individuality, scientific psychology, and William Stern's critical personalism
Print Book, English, ©2003
Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, Calif., ©2003
History
xxii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780761921721, 0761921729
52133156
Introduction: a lost star
Part I: Historical beginnings
The problem of individuality and the birth of a "differential" psychology
The narrowing of perspective in the proliferation of standardized testing and correlational research
The entrenchment of a "common trait" perspective on human individuality
Part II : Statistical thinking in the post-wundtian restructuring of scientific psychology
The emergence of a "neo-galtonian" framework for psychological research : a historical sketch
Contemporary "nomotheticism" within the neo-galtonian framework : a methodological primer
Contemporary "nomotheticism" in critical perspective
Part III: Rethinking the problem
An introduction to critical personalism
Some models of personalistic inquiry in contemporary psychology
Our differences aside : persons, things, individuality, and community