Allan R Buss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5377830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan R Buss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan R |
| FAMILY NAME | Buss |
| SIGNATURE | BUSS A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
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Contents, Vol. 17, 1974
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Piaget, Marx, and Buck-Morss on Cognitive Development. A Critique and Reinterpretation
Piaget’s and Marx’s cognitive theories of development are briefly compared and contrasted. This provides the necessary background and context for a critical look at Buck-Morss’ Marxian interpretation of cross-cultural differences in performance on Piagetian abstract formal reasoning tests. It is concluded that Buck-Morss’ view does not have contemporary truth value in light of certain non-real contractions which are inherent in her Marxian perspe…
Afterthoughts on the Future of Psychology
In reply to some comments on the future development of psychology Their concerns fell into two categories: the job market and the question of dialectical development within a discipline. In regard to the first issue, a decline in the numbers of new PhDs will tend to ensure that those who are able to enter the profession will be, in the main, the most qualified and motivated. Such a raising of stan dards, brought about by recent socioeconomic cond…
Development of Dialectics and Development of Humanistic Psychology
The historical development of the dialectic is briefly traced from Hegel to Marx. Certain aspects of both Hegelian and Marxian dialectics are brought to bear in arriving at a critical assessment as to how the development of a humanistic psychology should proceed. In this way, the reader is taken on a dialectical journey, where it is concluded that current ‘humanistic’ psychology may be aufheben (at the same time negated, affirmed, and transcended…
A Recursive-Nonrecursive Factor Model and Developmental Causal Networks
Multivariate approaches to the structuring of behavior are considered with respect to mapping out developmental causal networks. A general recursive-nonrecursive model is presented in which both unidirectional (recursive) and bidirectional (nonrecursive) influence properties are considered. The distinction of between versus within domain factors generates four major types of models. A further subdivision is made within the within domain recursive…
Psychology’s Future Development as Predicted from Generation Theory
The future development of psychology as an academic discipline is predicted to become severely retarded. This general conclusion is arrived at by considering present socioeconomic conditions affecting the discipline of psychology and the long-term consequences of such conditions in light of Karl Mannheim’s theory of generations. Of particular importance in this argument is the idea that in order to have a ‘living’ psychology, that is, a psycholog…
A Conceptual Framework for Learning Effecting the Development of Ability Factors
The relationship between learning, development, and ability factors is considered. After defining learning as effects changes in ability factor scores, some of the more learning principles are stated within this framework. types of learning are integrated with the concept of the ment of ability factors. This account provides for a leaning view of the growth of ability factors, which is hypothesized provide the theoretical underpinnings for quanti…
Humanistic Psychology as Liberal Ideology: The Socio-Historical Roots of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization
On the relationship between causes and reasons
Causes and reasons in attribution theory: A conceptual critique
"Critical Notice of Izenberg's "Psychohistory and Intellectual History
In this brief note I would like to consider some conceptual matters in Izenberg's recent analysis of the relationship between psychohistory and the history of ideas.' In particular, I wish to focus selectively upon what I regard as two distinct (but related) problematic issues underlying Izenberg's thesis: (a) his concepts of rationality and irrationality; and (b) his views on the origin versus the validity of ideas. The major ideas which emerge …
The structure of psychological revolutions
Four major revolutions within psychology (i.e., the behavioristic, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and humanistic) are briefly examined in an attempt to unearth their formal structures. The view put forth is that it is a transformation of the subject-object relation — an insight gleaned by an application of Ludwig Feuerbach's transformative method — which underlies major paradigmatic shifts within psychology. It is noted that psychological revolutions…
In defense of a critical-presentist historiography: The fact-theory relationship and Marx's epistemology
It is argued that mainstream social scientists made an "error" during the crucial formative years of the 1920s and 1930s. This historical error involved relinquishing, or at the very least ignoring, some of the epistemological views within the social sciences concerning the fact-theory relationship as developed by Marx and others in his tradition. The contemporary nature of some of Mark's epistemic views is demonstrated, where the case is made th…
Ratings of psychology journals compared to objective measures of journal impact
"Ideology run wild": Reply
Ratings of psychology journals compared to objective measures of journal impact
"Ideology run wild": Reply
Karl Mannheim's Legacy To Humanistic Psychology
Note on the Temporality of Trait Constructs
Galton and sex differences: An historical note
The psychological study of sex differences is a special area of interest within differential psychology. Differential psychology was launched as a scientific field of research in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Sir Francis Galton. Galton's early research on sex differences in psychological traits gives him the distinction of being the "father" of the modern study of sex differences. Galton's empirical findings and his interpretation …
Galton and the birth of differential psychology and eugenics: Social, political, and economic forces
The social, political, and economic forces operative in nineteenth-century Britain are briefly described. This permits tracing the birth of both the scientific study of individual differences and the field of eugenics to the infrastructure of society at that time. The distinction is made between the normative doctrine of individualism and the factual study of individual differences. It is argued that democratic--liberal--capitalistic--individuali…
An Inferential Strategy for Determining Factor Invariance Across Different Individuals and Different Variables
Different methods for indirectly establishing factor invariance across two situations both involving different individuals and different situations are out- lined. The procedures involve a planned data gathering strategy consisting of a t least two different groups, each receiving two different test batteries. The recommended strategy involves a combination of Tucker's interbattery technique and congruence measures. Some of the limitations of the…
The emerging field of the sociology of psychological knowledge
Causes and reasons in attribution theory: A conceptual critique
Humanistic Psychology as Liberal Ideology: The Socio-Historical Roots of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization
A general developmental model for interindividual differences, intraindividual differences, and intraindividual changes
On the relationship between causes and reasons
Detecting cross-cultural commonalities and differences: Intergroup factor analysis
Generational Analysis: Description, Explanation, and Theory 1
An adequate strategy in generational analysis must concern itself with at least three general matters: obtaining adequate descriptive data, explaining such data, and relating explanation to a general theory of generational differences and social change. At the descriptive level, generational differences at a given point in time may be associated with age, cohort, and/or interactional effects. The explanation of age, cohort, and interactional effe…
Multivariate model of quantitative, structural, and quantistructural ontogenetic change
An extension of developmental models that separate ontogenetic changes and cohort differences
Ontogenetic changes in cognitive structure from a multivariate perspective
"Critical Notice of Izenberg's "Psychohistory and Intellectual History
In this brief note I would like to consider some conceptual matters in Izenberg's recent analysis of the relationship between psychohistory and the history of ideas.' In particular, I wish to focus selectively upon what I regard as two distinct (but related) problematic issues underlying Izenberg's thesis: (a) his concepts of rationality and irrationality; and (b) his views on the origin versus the validity of ideas. The major ideas which emerge …
Karl Mannheim's Legacy To Humanistic Psychology
Note on the Temporality of Trait Constructs
Regression, heritability, and race differences in IQ
Learning, transfer, and changes in ability factors: A multivariate model
An extension of developmental models that separate ontogenetic changes and cohort differences
Generational Analysis: Description, Explanation, and Theory 1
An adequate strategy in generational analysis must concern itself with at least three general matters: obtaining adequate descriptive data, explaining such data, and relating explanation to a general theory of generational differences and social change. At the descriptive level, generational differences at a given point in time may be associated with age, cohort, and/or interactional effects. The explanation of age, cohort, and interactional effe…
Multivariate model of quantitative, structural, and quantistructural ontogenetic change
A general developmental model for interindividual differences, intraindividual differences, and intraindividual changes
An Inferential Strategy for Determining Factor Invariance Across Different Individuals and Different Variables
Different methods for indirectly establishing factor invariance across two situations both involving different individuals and different situations are out- lined. The procedures involve a planned data gathering strategy consisting of a t least two different groups, each receiving two different test batteries. The recommended strategy involves a combination of Tucker's interbattery technique and congruence measures. Some of the limitations of the…
The emerging field of the sociology of psychological knowledge
The emerging field of the sociology of psychological knowledge
More on the Age * Cohort developmental model: Reply to Labouvie
Ontogenetic changes in cognitive structure from a multivariate perspective
Regression, heritability, and race differences in IQ
Detecting cross-cultural commonalities and differences: Intergroup factor analysis
Ratings of psychology journals compared to objective measures of journal impact
"Ideology run wild": Reply
Ratings of psychology journals compared to objective measures of journal impact
"Ideology run wild": Reply
Karl Mannheim's Legacy To Humanistic Psychology
Note on the Temporality of Trait Constructs
Galton and sex differences: An historical note
The psychological study of sex differences is a special area of interest within differential psychology. Differential psychology was launched as a scientific field of research in the latter half of the nineteenth century by Sir Francis Galton. Galton's early research on sex differences in psychological traits gives him the distinction of being the "father" of the modern study of sex differences. Galton's empirical findings and his interpretation …
Galton and the birth of differential psychology and eugenics: Social, political, and economic forces
The social, political, and economic forces operative in nineteenth-century Britain are briefly described. This permits tracing the birth of both the scientific study of individual differences and the field of eugenics to the infrastructure of society at that time. The distinction is made between the normative doctrine of individualism and the factual study of individual differences. It is argued that democratic--liberal--capitalistic--individuali…
In defense of a critical-presentist historiography: The fact-theory relationship and Marx's epistemology
It is argued that mainstream social scientists made an "error" during the crucial formative years of the 1920s and 1930s. This historical error involved relinquishing, or at the very least ignoring, some of the epistemological views within the social sciences concerning the fact-theory relationship as developed by Marx and others in his tradition. The contemporary nature of some of Mark's epistemic views is demonstrated, where the case is made th…
Causes and reasons in attribution theory: A conceptual critique
"Critical Notice of Izenberg's "Psychohistory and Intellectual History
In this brief note I would like to consider some conceptual matters in Izenberg's recent analysis of the relationship between psychohistory and the history of ideas.' In particular, I wish to focus selectively upon what I regard as two distinct (but related) problematic issues underlying Izenberg's thesis: (a) his concepts of rationality and irrationality; and (b) his views on the origin versus the validity of ideas. The major ideas which emerge …
The structure of psychological revolutions
Four major revolutions within psychology (i.e., the behavioristic, cognitive, psychoanalytic, and humanistic) are briefly examined in an attempt to unearth their formal structures. The view put forth is that it is a transformation of the subject-object relation — an insight gleaned by an application of Ludwig Feuerbach's transformative method — which underlies major paradigmatic shifts within psychology. It is noted that psychological revolutions…
Humanistic Psychology as Liberal Ideology: The Socio-Historical Roots of Maslow's Theory of Self-Actualization
Psychology (34 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Mathematics (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Statistics (10 works) · Cognitive Abilities and Testing (8 works)