John Rowan
Biographic Data
| ID | 97023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Rowan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Rowan |
| SIGNATURE | ROWAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5062-4044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 69 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Palaeoecology of the Pliocene large carnivore guild at Hadar, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia
Dental microwear of Neogene cercopithecoids from the Turkana Basin, Kenya
A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context
The Hadar Formation, Afar Regional State, Ethiopia
Fossiliferous sediments of the Hadar Formation (Afar, Ethiopia) are preserved in the Hadar, Dikika, Gona, and Ledi-Geraru research areas, and have produced the most informative record of the mid-Pliocene hominin Australopithecus afarensis . Hundreds of specimens of A. afarensis have been recovered from the Hadar site, including a partial skeleton (A.L. 288–1), two nearly complete adult skulls (A.L. 444–2; A.L. 822–1), and a dense accumulation of …
Did vegetation change drive the extinction of Paranthropus boisei
Raising up African paleoanthropologists
On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis–Australopithecus afarensis lineage
The uncertain case for human-driven extinctions prior to Homo sapiens
A growing body of literature proposes that our ancestors contributed to large mammal extinctions in Africa long before the appearance of Homo sapiens , with some arguing that premodern hominins (e.g., Homo erectus ) triggered the demise of Africa's largest herbivores and the loss of carnivoran diversity. Though such arguments have been around for decades, they are now increasingly accepted by those concerned with biodiversity decline in the prese…
Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates
Very short introductions to evolutionary mammalogy
Reality Game
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Third Tier Thinking and Subtle Consciousness
We are becoming familiar with the ideas of first tier and second tier thinking from the work of Don Beck, Chris Cowan and Ken Wilber, but little has been written about third tier thinking, which is mentioned briefly by Wilber. It seems that the time has come to give it some consideration, and this is the purpose of this discussion item
Koans and Levels of Consciousness
This is a theoretical paper devoted to an examination of the phenomenon of the Zen koan. First, the existing understanding of the koan will be outlined from a number of sources. This will be followed by an examination of what the koan would look like from a structural point of view. Ken Wilber's outlook will then be used to look at the koan in a fresh way so that one might see it as a kind of test of the level of consciousness exhibited by each s…
Further thoughts from John Rowan
On Leaving Flatland and Honoring Maslow
On leaving Flatland and honoring Maslow
This article is about the failure of humanistic psychology to live up to the challenge of Maslow's basic idea of levels of psychospiritual development. Too many humanistic writers are still living in Flatland, where there are no levels, no differences in ways of looking at the world, no grades of consciousness. Some examples are given. This article argues that it would be more in keeping with Maslow's humanistic legacy to acknowledge an evolution…
An overview of qualitative methods in psychological research
Some history of humanistic psychology
This article arose out of a request to say something about humanistic psychology for a conference on positive psychology which was held in England in 2002. I wanted to say that whatever positive psychology had to offer, we got there first. So this is perhaps a quite partisan piece, and of course it says very little about positive psychology. But now it has a further purpose, which is to tell Americans a bit about Europe and what happened there. M…
Ascent and Descent in Maslow’s Theory
This article critiques the notion that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a one-way linear trend from lower to higher levels. It introduces the idea of a contrast between abundance and deficiency motivation and uses this to suggest that the usual table of needs can be split into two vertically. At each level, we have a choice between abundance (being) motivation and deficiency motivation, and we have to take responsibility for this
Maslow Amended
Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs is often badly stated, not least by Maslow himself. It seems worthwhile to amend it in such a way that it makes more sense and lines up better with other research along similar lines. It is hoped that the textbooks of the future will print the revised hierarchy instead of the original one
Consciousness and Experience
Philosophy on messick and social conflict
Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates
Two Humanistic Psychologies or One
The Real Self and Mystical Experiences
The concept of self-actualization is central to humanistic psychology. But what is this self that is to be actualized? Maslow, who introduced the term, thought that it belonged to the realm of Being, most easily accessed through peak experiences. It was essentially something transcendent, and to contact it was to partake of something like a mystical experience. But Maslow, in company with many earlier and later writers, took it that there was jus…
Maslow Amended
Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs is often badly stated, not least by Maslow himself. It seems worthwhile to amend it in such a way that it makes more sense and lines up better with other research along similar lines. It is hoped that the textbooks of the future will print the revised hierarchy instead of the original one
Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach
Ascent and Descent in Maslow’s Theory
This article critiques the notion that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a one-way linear trend from lower to higher levels. It introduces the idea of a contrast between abundance and deficiency motivation and uses this to suggest that the usual table of needs can be split into two vertically. At each level, we have a choice between abundance (being) motivation and deficiency motivation, and we have to take responsibility for this
Holistic Listening
This theoretical study outlines four levels of listening (intellect, feelings, body, and soul/spirit) and four types of listening (empathy, awareness, countertransference, and resonance) forming a matrix of sixteen cells, because each type can be carried out at each level. Eight possible combinations are described in detail. Any of these ways of listening may be conducted purely in a conscious manner, or bringing in the unconscious as well. Examp…
A 4.3-million-year-old Australopithecus anamensis mandible from Ileret, East Turkana, Kenya, and its paleoenvironmental context
Philosophy on messick and social conflict
Nine Humanistic Heresies
A heresy is what happens when one part of a coherent body of doctrine gets taken and blown up in size until it becomes something new, but distorted and one-sided. The heresies in this article are Instrumentalism, Feelingism, Autonomy-ism, Peace-and-loveism, Peakism, Spiritual-ism, Expertism, Sexism, and Eclectic Mish-mash-ism. They are described and then criticized in detail. In the conclusion, humanistic psychology is described and its hopeful n…
An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on the Metaphysics of Aristotle
A Humanistic Pscyhologist Locas At Groups
Group Work in Other Fields
Human Inquiry
Sets forth a new paradigm for the philosophy and practice of research in fields of human activity: a collaborative, experimental approach in which inquiry is firmly rooted in subjects' experience of their lives. Covers the philosophy, methodology, practice and prospects of the new paradigm, showing how to do research with people rather than on people. Synthesizes material from researchers pursuing similar paths in Europe, North America, Africa an…
The Real Self and Mystical Experiences
The concept of self-actualization is central to humanistic psychology. But what is this self that is to be actualized? Maslow, who introduced the term, thought that it belonged to the realm of Being, most easily accessed through peak experiences. It was essentially something transcendent, and to contact it was to partake of something like a mystical experience. But Maslow, in company with many earlier and later writers, took it that there was jus…
Holistic Listening
This theoretical study outlines four levels of listening (intellect, feelings, body, and soul/spirit) and four types of listening (empathy, awareness, countertransference, and resonance) forming a matrix of sixteen cells, because each type can be carried out at each level. Eight possible combinations are described in detail. Any of these ways of listening may be conducted purely in a conscious manner, or bringing in the unconscious as well. Examp…
Nine Humanistic Heresies
A heresy is what happens when one part of a coherent body of doctrine gets taken and blown up in size until it becomes something new, but distorted and one-sided. The heresies in this article are Instrumentalism, Feelingism, Autonomy-ism, Peace-and-loveism, Peakism, Spiritual-ism, Expertism, Sexism, and Eclectic Mish-mash-ism. They are described and then criticized in detail. In the conclusion, humanistic psychology is described and its hopeful n…
Two Humanistic Psychologies or One
The Intellect
Hegel and self-actualization
Hegel says that mind develops through three phases, which he calls soul, consciousness, and mind. By referring to these three phases as the Primary level, the Social level and the Realizing level, it makes it clearer that they link up with thoroughly familiar phenomena in the field of psychotherapy and with contemporary life generally. In fact, they give a new angle on the whole process of self‐actualization, which throws light on many topics in …
Consciousness and Experience
Philosophy on messick and social conflict
Maslow Amended
Maslow's theory of the hierarchy of needs is often badly stated, not least by Maslow himself. It seems worthwhile to amend it in such a way that it makes more sense and lines up better with other research along similar lines. It is hoped that the textbooks of the future will print the revised hierarchy instead of the original one
Ascent and Descent in Maslow’s Theory
This article critiques the notion that Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a one-way linear trend from lower to higher levels. It introduces the idea of a contrast between abundance and deficiency motivation and uses this to suggest that the usual table of needs can be split into two vertically. At each level, we have a choice between abundance (being) motivation and deficiency motivation, and we have to take responsibility for this
Some history of humanistic psychology
This article arose out of a request to say something about humanistic psychology for a conference on positive psychology which was held in England in 2002. I wanted to say that whatever positive psychology had to offer, we got there first. So this is perhaps a quite partisan piece, and of course it says very little about positive psychology. But now it has a further purpose, which is to tell Americans a bit about Europe and what happened there. M…
An overview of qualitative methods in psychological research
Further thoughts from John Rowan
On Leaving Flatland and Honoring Maslow
On leaving Flatland and honoring Maslow
This article is about the failure of humanistic psychology to live up to the challenge of Maslow's basic idea of levels of psychospiritual development. Too many humanistic writers are still living in Flatland, where there are no levels, no differences in ways of looking at the world, no grades of consciousness. Some examples are given. This article argues that it would be more in keeping with Maslow's humanistic legacy to acknowledge an evolution…
Koans and Levels of Consciousness
This is a theoretical paper devoted to an examination of the phenomenon of the Zen koan. First, the existing understanding of the koan will be outlined from a number of sources. This will be followed by an examination of what the koan would look like from a structural point of view. Ken Wilber's outlook will then be used to look at the koan in a fresh way so that one might see it as a kind of test of the level of consciousness exhibited by each s…
Third Tier Thinking and Subtle Consciousness
We are becoming familiar with the ideas of first tier and second tier thinking from the work of Don Beck, Chris Cowan and Ken Wilber, but little has been written about third tier thinking, which is mentioned briefly by Wilber. It seems that the time has come to give it some consideration, and this is the purpose of this discussion item
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
The Paleoclimatic Record and Plio-Pleistocene Paleoenvironments
Identifying robust response options to manage environmental change using an Ecosystem Approach
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