Kenneth D Feigenbaum
Biographic Data
| ID | 4439559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth D Feigenbaum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth D |
| FAMILY NAME | Feigenbaum |
| SIGNATURE | FEIGENBAUM K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland Global Campus, Adelphi, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7439-2412 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Critique of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers as Educators
In this article, the author examines the thoughts of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers on teaching and higher education themes, particularly the humanistic psychology approach to education. It reviews Maslow’s expert introduction of materials on psychology, literature, ethics, and philosophy in class, which demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach to teaching students. Maslow developed ideal core goals for college, emphasizing student creativity a…
The Search for Challenge
This article presents reflections by Feigenbaum on David Riesman. David Riesman was Feigenbaum’s research assistant at the University of Chicago from 1956-1958. This article offers the context that led to the writing of “The Search for Challenge,” which is perceived as a leitmotif in the life of Riesman and is seen as a motivator for his writing of this article. Riesman’s wide-ranging intellectual perspective is presented in the article
Historical narratives
Maslow’s Intellectual Betrayal of Ruth Benedict
During the summer of 1938, Abe Maslow was engaged in a field study of the Northern Blackfeet. He received a grant-in aid from the Social Science Research Council under the sponsorship of Ruth Benedict to study the “security needs” of the tribe. This project reflected Benedict’s long-term interest in her concept of synergic and nonsynergic societies, which culminated with her publication of Patterns of Culture in 1934. It was Benedict’s thesis tha…
The criminalization of the mentally ill
The criminalization of the mentally ill
Relationship of Three Motives to Choice in the Prisoner's Dilemma
23 Ss each played 24 trials of a Prisoner's Dilemma Game against a confederate who mimicked their previous responses. Before each trial, Ss wrote briefly about their conscious thoughts and motivations. These written responses were scored for cooperativeness-competitiveness, trust-mistrust, and economic rationality. Correlations between response measures indicated that A-responses (allowing maximum joint earnings) were strongly influenced by both …
Some Crucial Factors in the Creation of Cognitive Dissonance
The present experiment is based upon one performed by Aronson and Carlsmith (1963) concerning the effects of severity of threat on pre- and posc-temptation evaluation of objects. The theory of cognitive dissonance predicts that there will be deval~iation of the object under conditions of mild threat but that, if a more severe threat is used, devaluation will not occur. Data obtained by Aronson and Carlsmith were in line with the prediction from t…
The Minor Crisis
Leisure and Life-Style
The Kansas City Study of Adult Life, studying the social role peformance of people age forty to seventy, gaven ratings of performance on various social roles. When leisure activity was related to the pattern of social role performance (called "life-style"), four general life-style were found: community-centered, home-centered high, home-centered medium, and low level, the adjectives for altitude referring to level of social role performance. The …
Leisure and Life-Style
The Kansas City Study of Adult Life, studying the social role peformance of people age forty to seventy, gaven ratings of performance on various social roles. When leisure activity was related to the pattern of social role performance (called "life-style"), four general life-style were found: community-centered, home-centered high, home-centered medium, and low level, the adjectives for altitude referring to level of social role performance. The …
Maslow’s Intellectual Betrayal of Ruth Benedict
During the summer of 1938, Abe Maslow was engaged in a field study of the Northern Blackfeet. He received a grant-in aid from the Social Science Research Council under the sponsorship of Ruth Benedict to study the “security needs” of the tribe. This project reflected Benedict’s long-term interest in her concept of synergic and nonsynergic societies, which culminated with her publication of Patterns of Culture in 1934. It was Benedict’s thesis tha…
Leisure and Life-Style
The Kansas City Study of Adult Life, studying the social role peformance of people age forty to seventy, gaven ratings of performance on various social roles. When leisure activity was related to the pattern of social role performance (called "life-style"), four general life-style were found: community-centered, home-centered high, home-centered medium, and low level, the adjectives for altitude referring to level of social role performance. The …
Some Crucial Factors in the Creation of Cognitive Dissonance
The present experiment is based upon one performed by Aronson and Carlsmith (1963) concerning the effects of severity of threat on pre- and posc-temptation evaluation of objects. The theory of cognitive dissonance predicts that there will be deval~iation of the object under conditions of mild threat but that, if a more severe threat is used, devaluation will not occur. Data obtained by Aronson and Carlsmith were in line with the prediction from t…
The Minor Crisis
Relationship of Three Motives to Choice in the Prisoner's Dilemma
23 Ss each played 24 trials of a Prisoner's Dilemma Game against a confederate who mimicked their previous responses. Before each trial, Ss wrote briefly about their conscious thoughts and motivations. These written responses were scored for cooperativeness-competitiveness, trust-mistrust, and economic rationality. Correlations between response measures indicated that A-responses (allowing maximum joint earnings) were strongly influenced by both …
The criminalization of the mentally ill
The criminalization of the mentally ill
Maslow’s Intellectual Betrayal of Ruth Benedict
During the summer of 1938, Abe Maslow was engaged in a field study of the Northern Blackfeet. He received a grant-in aid from the Social Science Research Council under the sponsorship of Ruth Benedict to study the “security needs” of the tribe. This project reflected Benedict’s long-term interest in her concept of synergic and nonsynergic societies, which culminated with her publication of Patterns of Culture in 1934. It was Benedict’s thesis tha…
Historical narratives
The Search for Challenge
This article presents reflections by Feigenbaum on David Riesman. David Riesman was Feigenbaum’s research assistant at the University of Chicago from 1956-1958. This article offers the context that led to the writing of “The Search for Challenge,” which is perceived as a leitmotif in the life of Riesman and is seen as a motivator for his writing of this article. Riesman’s wide-ranging intellectual perspective is presented in the article
A Critique of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers as Educators
In this article, the author examines the thoughts of Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers on teaching and higher education themes, particularly the humanistic psychology approach to education. It reviews Maslow’s expert introduction of materials on psychology, literature, ethics, and philosophy in class, which demonstrates an interdisciplinary approach to teaching students. Maslow developed ideal core goals for college, emphasizing student creativity a…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Maslow's hierarchy of needs (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Applied Psychology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works)