William Mckinley Runyan
Biographic Data
| ID | 133559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Mckinley Runyan |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Mckinley |
| FAMILY NAME | Runyan |
| SIGNATURE | RUNYAN W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Obituary: Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008)
History in the making: What will become of William James’s house and legacy
History in the making: What will become of William James’s house and legacy
Studying Lives
Psychohistory and Political Psychology: A Comparative Analysis
Psychology and Historical Interpretation
Journal Article Psychology and Historical Interpretation. Ed. by William McKinley Runyan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiv + 306 pp. Cloth, $27.95; paper, $13.95.) Get access Joseph A. Dowling Joseph A. Dowling Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1230–1231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936597 Published: 01 March 1990
Psychology and Historical Interpretation
PART I: CASE STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY PART II: THE USES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION PART III: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Progress in Psychoblography
Progress in psychobiography What is it? Has there been any? And what processes contnbute to it? The issue of progress in psychobiography is pursued from two different perspectives The first section briefly reviews the historical growth of the field, including the range of disciplines involved, the rise of associated professional organizations and publication outlets, and a quantitative analysis of the increase in books, articles, and dissertation…
Life Histories in Anthropology: Another View
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
In defense of the case study method
A review of common criticisms of the case study method indicates that many of them are based on conceptual confusions. Other criticisms stem from the inappropriate application of criteria used in the evaluation of experimental designs. This paper attempts to clarify several of the underlying conceptual issues, to identify more appropriate evaluative criteria, and to suggest procedures leading to more rigorous use of the case study method
Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography
One of the tasks of personality psychology is to explain the behavior of individual human beings. Vincent Van Gogh, for example, cut off the lower half of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute. More than a dozen different explanations of his actions have been proposed. Is one of these explanations true, are all of them true, or, perhaps, are none of them true? And how can we know? This incident is examined in order to explore some of the probl…
A stage-state analysis of the life course
A stage–state analysis of the life course
Alternative Accounts of Lives: An Argument for Epistemological Relativism
How are we to interpret the fact that so many different biographical accounts can and have been given of individual lives? This article examines the history of biographies of Jesus, Shakespeare, and Lincoln in order to identify the conditions and processes leading to such diversity, and to argue that this diversity is not necessarily a sign of inadequate scholarship, but may reflect different yet supplementary perspectives on the same central fig…
Perceived determinants of highs and lows in life satisfaction
The life course as a theoretical orientation: Sequences of person-situation interaction1
The life course is proposed as a theoretical orientation concerned with the problems of describing, understanding, generalizing about, predicting, and intentionally changing the course of lives. A life course orientation provides a framework for analyzing the causal and probabilistic structure of the course of experience in individual lives, groups of lives, and lives in general. The life course can be conceptualized as a sequence of person-situa…
Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography
One of the tasks of personality psychology is to explain the behavior of individual human beings. Vincent Van Gogh, for example, cut off the lower half of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute. More than a dozen different explanations of his actions have been proposed. Is one of these explanations true, are all of them true, or, perhaps, are none of them true? And how can we know? This incident is examined in order to explore some of the probl…
A stage–state analysis of the life course
Life Histories in Anthropology: Another View
Perceived determinants of highs and lows in life satisfaction
Progress in Psychoblography
Progress in psychobiography What is it? Has there been any? And what processes contnbute to it? The issue of progress in psychobiography is pursued from two different perspectives The first section briefly reviews the historical growth of the field, including the range of disciplines involved, the rise of associated professional organizations and publication outlets, and a quantitative analysis of the increase in books, articles, and dissertation…
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Alternative Accounts of Lives: An Argument for Epistemological Relativism
How are we to interpret the fact that so many different biographical accounts can and have been given of individual lives? This article examines the history of biographies of Jesus, Shakespeare, and Lincoln in order to identify the conditions and processes leading to such diversity, and to argue that this diversity is not necessarily a sign of inadequate scholarship, but may reflect different yet supplementary perspectives on the same central fig…
A stage-state analysis of the life course
The life course as a theoretical orientation: Sequences of person-situation interaction1
The life course is proposed as a theoretical orientation concerned with the problems of describing, understanding, generalizing about, predicting, and intentionally changing the course of lives. A life course orientation provides a framework for analyzing the causal and probabilistic structure of the course of experience in individual lives, groups of lives, and lives in general. The life course can be conceptualized as a sequence of person-situa…
Perceived determinants of highs and lows in life satisfaction
A stage-state analysis of the life course
A stage–state analysis of the life course
Alternative Accounts of Lives: An Argument for Epistemological Relativism
How are we to interpret the fact that so many different biographical accounts can and have been given of individual lives? This article examines the history of biographies of Jesus, Shakespeare, and Lincoln in order to identify the conditions and processes leading to such diversity, and to argue that this diversity is not necessarily a sign of inadequate scholarship, but may reflect different yet supplementary perspectives on the same central fig…
Why did Van Gogh cut off his ear? The problem of alternative explanations in psychobiography
One of the tasks of personality psychology is to explain the behavior of individual human beings. Vincent Van Gogh, for example, cut off the lower half of his left ear and gave it to a prostitute. More than a dozen different explanations of his actions have been proposed. Is one of these explanations true, are all of them true, or, perhaps, are none of them true? And how can we know? This incident is examined in order to explore some of the probl…
In defense of the case study method
A review of common criticisms of the case study method indicates that many of them are based on conceptual confusions. Other criticisms stem from the inappropriate application of criteria used in the evaluation of experimental designs. This paper attempts to clarify several of the underlying conceptual issues, to identify more appropriate evaluative criteria, and to suggest procedures leading to more rigorous use of the case study method
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Life Histories and Psychobiography: Explorations in Theory and Method
Life Histories in Anthropology: Another View
Progress in Psychoblography
Progress in psychobiography What is it? Has there been any? And what processes contnbute to it? The issue of progress in psychobiography is pursued from two different perspectives The first section briefly reviews the historical growth of the field, including the range of disciplines involved, the rise of associated professional organizations and publication outlets, and a quantitative analysis of the increase in books, articles, and dissertation…
Psychology and Historical Interpretation
PART I: CASE STUDIES IN BIOGRAPHY AND PSYCHOLOGY PART II: THE USES OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOLOGY IN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION PART III: CONCLUSION AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Psychology and Historical Interpretation
Journal Article Psychology and Historical Interpretation. Ed. by William McKinley Runyan. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. xiv + 306 pp. Cloth, $27.95; paper, $13.95.) Get access Joseph A. Dowling Joseph A. Dowling Lehigh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 4, March 1990, Pages 1230–1231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2936597 Published: 01 March 1990
Psychohistory and Political Psychology: A Comparative Analysis
Studying Lives
History in the making: What will become of William James’s house and legacy
History in the making: What will become of William James’s house and legacy
Obituary: Gardner Lindzey (1920–2008)
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