Constance T Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 608015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance T Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance T |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER C T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Duquesne University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
From Each According to His Abilities: The Role of Effort in a Moral Society
Intelligence contra IQ
With the transformation of intelligence into IQ as a concrete reference point, this article indicates the general social impact of psychology practiced as a natural science. A metascience examiniation of the latter’s approach to man reveals the interrelations of its assumptions, methods, and content, while thus suggesting the need for a specifically human science. This alternative’s assumptions, methods, and content are specified as being rooted …
Humanistic Psychology and Qualitative Research: Affinity, Clarifications, and Invitations
This paper invites humanistically oriented psychologists to undertake qualitative research, whether individually, with students, or colleagues. Humanistic attitudes and values are especially suited to respecting and exploring life worlds-the content of most qualitative research. The paper clarifies some basic issues and encourages some specific means of getting started and then for publishing
Qualitative Psychological Research and Individualized/Collaborative Psychological Assessment: Implications of Their Similarities for Promoting a Life-World Orientation
This article describes similarities of qualitative psychological research and individualized/collaborative psychological assessment. These similarities remind us of what we often take for granted: their grounding in a human-science psychology that grants priority to the life world. Reflection on that grounding encourages more thorough attention to the assumptions underlying our practices, which in turn may encourage us to extend those practices m…
Infusing Humanistic Perspectives into Psychology
This article advocates giving impetus to a process already underway: mainstream psychology implicitly paying heed to humanistic values. Changes in the prevailing philosophical paradigm will follow further infusion of values, introduced through practical action rather than through argument. These practices include using language appropriate to humans, conducting qualitative research, grounding professional ethics in social philosophy, serving in p…
Introduction: Special issue on humanistic approaches to psychological assessment
Introduction to special issue on humanistic approaches to psychological assessment part II: Philosophical and theoretical approaches to humanistic psychological assessment
Evolving guidelines for publication of qualitative research studies in psychology and related fields
We present a set of evolving guidelines for reviewing qualitative research, to serve four functions: to contribute to the process of legitimizing qualitative research; to ensure more appropriate and valid scientific reviews of qualitative manuscripts, theses, and dissertations; to encourage better quality control in qualitative research through better self‐ and other‐monitoring; and to encourage further developments in approach and method. Buildi…
Humanizing psychological assessment
University training in assessment remains largely technological and classificatory, but practices are changing influenced by feminism and postmodernism. This influence is possible in part because of an implicit response to humanistic psychology's earlier challenges. This paper reviews the shift from holistic psychology into “objective” assessment, and subsequent humanistic calls for assessing the person as person. Fischer's approach to practicing…
A Phenomenological Study of Being Criminally Victimized: Contributions and Constraints of Qualitative Research
Phenomenological analyses of 50 victims' experiences are presented. The format of the results preserves what it was like to live through being victimized, including the temporal flow and the vicissitudes of the experience. This presentation tries to put readers in touch with existential meanings of being criminally victimized, especially the radical threat to the victims' sense of social order and of community. It also draws out implications for …
Being Criminally Victimized: An Illustrated Structure
Styles of living with low back injury: The continuity dimension
Books in review
Historical relations of psychology as an object-science and a subject-science: Toward psychology as a human-science
Textbooks and other teaching of psychology's history oversimplify to the point of presenting it as the evolution of an exclusively object-science--despite general familiarity with integral extrascientistic practices and assumptions. Representative examples are presented, along with an overview of object-psychology's cultural/practical routes to dominance. The purpose of highlighting these facets of psychology's development is to call for psycholo…
Contextual approach to assessment
Psychology as a human science contra humane behaviorism
Ethical issues in the use of human subjects
Social schemas: Response sets or perceptual meanings
A Phenomenological Study of Being Criminally Victimized: Contributions and Constraints of Qualitative Research
Phenomenological analyses of 50 victims' experiences are presented. The format of the results preserves what it was like to live through being victimized, including the temporal flow and the vicissitudes of the experience. This presentation tries to put readers in touch with existential meanings of being criminally victimized, especially the radical threat to the victims' sense of social order and of community. It also draws out implications for …
Infusing Humanistic Perspectives into Psychology
This article advocates giving impetus to a process already underway: mainstream psychology implicitly paying heed to humanistic values. Changes in the prevailing philosophical paradigm will follow further infusion of values, introduced through practical action rather than through argument. These practices include using language appropriate to humans, conducting qualitative research, grounding professional ethics in social philosophy, serving in p…
Styles of living with low back injury: The continuity dimension
Social schemas: Response sets or perceptual meanings
Contextual approach to assessment
Ethical issues in the use of human subjects
Social schemas: Response sets or perceptual meanings
Contextual approach to assessment
Psychology as a human science contra humane behaviorism
Historical relations of psychology as an object-science and a subject-science: Toward psychology as a human-science
Textbooks and other teaching of psychology's history oversimplify to the point of presenting it as the evolution of an exclusively object-science--despite general familiarity with integral extrascientistic practices and assumptions. Representative examples are presented, along with an overview of object-psychology's cultural/practical routes to dominance. The purpose of highlighting these facets of psychology's development is to call for psycholo…
Books in review
Styles of living with low back injury: The continuity dimension
A Phenomenological Study of Being Criminally Victimized: Contributions and Constraints of Qualitative Research
Phenomenological analyses of 50 victims' experiences are presented. The format of the results preserves what it was like to live through being victimized, including the temporal flow and the vicissitudes of the experience. This presentation tries to put readers in touch with existential meanings of being criminally victimized, especially the radical threat to the victims' sense of social order and of community. It also draws out implications for …
Being Criminally Victimized: An Illustrated Structure
Humanizing psychological assessment
University training in assessment remains largely technological and classificatory, but practices are changing influenced by feminism and postmodernism. This influence is possible in part because of an implicit response to humanistic psychology's earlier challenges. This paper reviews the shift from holistic psychology into “objective” assessment, and subsequent humanistic calls for assessing the person as person. Fischer's approach to practicing…
Evolving guidelines for publication of qualitative research studies in psychology and related fields
We present a set of evolving guidelines for reviewing qualitative research, to serve four functions: to contribute to the process of legitimizing qualitative research; to ensure more appropriate and valid scientific reviews of qualitative manuscripts, theses, and dissertations; to encourage better quality control in qualitative research through better self‐ and other‐monitoring; and to encourage further developments in approach and method. Buildi…
Introduction: Special issue on humanistic approaches to psychological assessment
Introduction to special issue on humanistic approaches to psychological assessment part II: Philosophical and theoretical approaches to humanistic psychological assessment
Infusing Humanistic Perspectives into Psychology
This article advocates giving impetus to a process already underway: mainstream psychology implicitly paying heed to humanistic values. Changes in the prevailing philosophical paradigm will follow further infusion of values, introduced through practical action rather than through argument. These practices include using language appropriate to humans, conducting qualitative research, grounding professional ethics in social philosophy, serving in p…
Humanistic Psychology and Qualitative Research: Affinity, Clarifications, and Invitations
This paper invites humanistically oriented psychologists to undertake qualitative research, whether individually, with students, or colleagues. Humanistic attitudes and values are especially suited to respecting and exploring life worlds-the content of most qualitative research. The paper clarifies some basic issues and encourages some specific means of getting started and then for publishing
Qualitative Psychological Research and Individualized/Collaborative Psychological Assessment: Implications of Their Similarities for Promoting a Life-World Orientation
This article describes similarities of qualitative psychological research and individualized/collaborative psychological assessment. These similarities remind us of what we often take for granted: their grounding in a human-science psychology that grants priority to the life world. Reflection on that grounding encourages more thorough attention to the assumptions underlying our practices, which in turn may encourage us to extend those practices m…
From Each According to His Abilities: The Role of Effort in a Moral Society
Intelligence contra IQ
With the transformation of intelligence into IQ as a concrete reference point, this article indicates the general social impact of psychology practiced as a natural science. A metascience examiniation of the latter’s approach to man reveals the interrelations of its assumptions, methods, and content, while thus suggesting the need for a specifically human science. This alternative’s assumptions, methods, and content are specified as being rooted …
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (5 works) · Humanism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works)