H J Stam
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 21759 |
|---|---|
| NOME | H J Stam |
| PRENOMES | H J |
| SOBRENOME | Stam |
| ASSINATURA | STAM H J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Calgary |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2659-9248 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 54 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Conclusion
A word to the wise
Heinz Streib’s appeal for a wisdom that takes seriously the deep problem of “the other” is not only profound but timely. In my comments I ask if this question might even benefit from a research agenda or if that is a distraction and then I suggest an additional point of view, based on the work of the late John Shotter, that might assist us in understanding how we come to know from within our activities rather than “about” our activities. Will thi…
Mere guesswork”
From 1929 until 1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board (the Board) recommended that 4,739 individuals be sterilized. The original 1928 act that legalized eugenic sterilization stipulated that the surgery itself required the consent of the individual or their caregiver; however, in 1937, the Alberta government removed the consent requirement for such cases where the Board determined individual patients to be "mental defectives." By analyzing published r…
I don’t think that’s like a healthy way to be healthy”
Eating is situated within a context of politicized issues, such as environmental problems and health concerns; as a result, food talk is imbued with dilemmas. This study explores how twenty-sixundergraduate students negotiate dilemmas around food and position themselves in relation to their eating practices, using Potter and Wetherell’s tradition of discourse analysis and informed by Billig’s exploration of ideological dilemmas. We identified two…
On the importance of theory and contagion
As Theory & Psychology has reached its 30th anniversary I reflect on the state of the discipline and the state of theory. I argue that we need good theory (in its broadest sense) more than ever, not only because of its role in psychology’s critical wing but also because of the requirement to continually regenerate theory if it is to be useful and responsive to lives as lived. Theory in a broad sense continues to grapple with questions of ways of …
Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
This article analyzes variations in subject perceptions of pain in Milgram’s obedience experiments and their behavioral consequences. Based on an unpublished study by Milgram’s assistant, Taketo Murata, we report the relationship between the subjects’ belief that the learner was actually receiving painful electric shocks and their choice of shock level. This archival material indicates that in 18 of 23 variations of the experiment, the mean level…
Health psychology in autobiography
Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context that is both institutional and personal, Stam, Murray, and Lubek raise a series of questions about health psychology and its propagation. While uniquely Canadian their professional careers were affected …
Cycles of deportability
In recent decades, migration scholars have challenged reified categories of 'illegal' migrants and observed migrant 'illegalization' and deportability as exploitative sociopolitical processes. Yet, in the move away from studying 'undocumented migrants' as distinct epistemic subjects, we argue that scholars have lost sight of migrants as agents. Consequently, migrant lives are explained in terms of social determinants rather than migrants' intenti…
Crisis? What crisis? Cross-cultural psychology’s appropriation of cultural psychology
Whereas cross-cultural psychology and cultural psychology have been distinguished as separate projects for decades, talk about their possible collaboration is becoming increasingly common. Several scholars have described their differences as essentially non-oppositional and the latest Handbook of Cultural Psychology combines articles from both research traditions. This paper scrutinizes these consolidating efforts first by tracing historically ho…
“Cultural dope” and “psychological dope”
Using articles published in this journal by Brown, McHoul and Rapley in 2001 and Middleton and Lightfoot, also in 2001, we use ethnomethodology as a pretext for discussing the foundation of cultural psychology on the admittedly difficult notion of everyday life and people’s methods in negotiating that life. The social ordering of what Garfinkel termed an “immortal ordinary society” is just the kind of ordering the study of which might lead to a c…
Freeman’s transorbital lobotomy as an anomaly
In 1946, Walter Freeman introduced the transorbital ice pick lobotomy. Touted as a procedure that could be learned and subsequently performed by psychiatrists outside of the operating room, the technique was quickly criticized by neurosurgeons. In this article, we take a material culture approach to consider 2 grounds upon which neurosurgeons based their objections-surgical instruments and operative spaces. On both counts, Freeman was in contrave…
Beyond Papanicolaou
Self and Dialogue
This issue takes up the notion of dialogue and self in multiple ways, particularly with reference to the contemporary conception of the dialogical self. In their diffusion and strength, the conceptual work in these papers, which represent a second generation of self scholarship, demonstrates that the interplay of “self” and “dialogue” is proving to be fruitful in its utility and striking in its originality. At stake is just what is meant by dialo…
Addressing the Other in Dialogue
The dialogical self, defined as a dynamic multiplicity of I-positions, has been taken up in multiple ways in psychology generally and cultural psychology specifically. As a self unfolding dynamically with others in a world, the dialogical self is at its foundation ethical. Self scholars have recognized the ethical nature of the dialogical self, but have not yet described how the self navigates its course in light of the demands and considerations…
The Fault is Not in Ourselves, but in Our Methods
Habitus, Psychology, and Ethnography
Habitus has become a conceptual anchor in work on the social study of the body in a range of disciplines, but also more generally in psychology proper. Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus is one of a “structuring structure” or “system of dispositions” that generates practices by ensuring the presence of the past in experience. The papers in this section discuss issues arising from this notion, particularly its relevance to psychology, the problem…
Idols of the psychologist
Before and after World War II, a loose movement within Dutch psychology solidified as a nascent phenomenological psychology. Dutch phenomenological psychologists attempted to generate an understanding of psychology that was based on Husserlian interpretations of phenomenological philosophy. This movement came to a halt in the 1960s, even though it had been exported to North America and elsewhere as "phenomenological psychology." Frequently referr…
Introduction
The articles in this special issue cover a range of critical issues and approaches in social psychology. Two of their common features are: (a) their restatement—in various forms—of the unresolved epistemological problems that continue to inform critical discussions of social psychology; and (b) the rarely debated question of just what makes social psychology social . These two questions are interlocking: the undecided nature of the latter eventua…
Physician, Heal Thyself
Reminding us of the crucial tasks that require our urgent ministrations, Hepworth (this issue) rightly notes that critique has its limits. I agree and note that our fates as critics are bound to a professionalism we may not be able to escape
Medicalizing melancholia
The nineteenth century was the site of radical changes in understanding mental illness. The professionalization of psychiatry consisted primarily of the discipline's aspiration to the status of an expert medical subspecialty. While all forms of insanity were eventually reframed in medical terms, melancholia-for moral and nosological reasons-assumed a special role that made it an ideal diagnosis for conceptual reframing. Our analysis of the journa…
Critical Engagements with Culture and Self
This issue takes the binary of ‘culture’ and ‘self’ to be a problem of theorizing an entrenched dualism by simultaneously breaking down the dichotomy and re-theorizing its inherently contested members. In this introduction we describe briefly the problems confronting this theoretical project, the manner in which alternative frames of analysis can be brought to bear on the question, and the ways in which the authors of this issue have addressed th…
Cancer Narratives and the Cancer Support Group
We conceptualize the experience of cancer as requiring 'biographical work' and examine the nature of this work in the context of peer support groups. Interviews with participants and leaders of support groups were used to theorize the importance of support to cancer patients with varying stages and length of disease. Patient interviews led us to describe the process of joining, belonging, and identifying with, support groups as an important proce…
Introduction
The articles in this issue represent a broad range of positions that nonetheless coalesce into a set of clearly defined but contested claims concerning the ritual of debate, the realism-social constructionism divide, and the relational nature of human sociality. I foreground these issues by contextualizing the question of academic debate and historicizing the social constructionist movement. Much remains to be done to understand the psychological…
Ten Years after, Decade to Come
In this editorial article I review the first decade of published papers in Theory & Psychology, particularly noting several tensions and problems manifested in contemporary theory. One of these is the tension between the universal and the particular, another is captured by the way in which the work of James Gibson and Ludwig Wittgenstein is in a limited sense representative of the kinds of problems articulated in the journal. I discuss the changi…
Logic or Psychologism
Theorizing Health and Illness
Health and illness in contemporary psychology are remarkably undertheorized, with the consequence that implicit definitions of these topics are unquestionably imported into health psychology. Largely inspired and oriented to the medical system, health psychology is often subservient to biomedically inspired theory or directed to solving the problems of the health care system, not those of its patients or those who might ultimately benefit from he…
Cancer Narratives and the Cancer Support Group
We conceptualize the experience of cancer as requiring 'biographical work' and examine the nature of this work in the context of peer support groups. Interviews with participants and leaders of support groups were used to theorize the importance of support to cancer patients with varying stages and length of disease. Patient interviews led us to describe the process of joining, belonging, and identifying with, support groups as an important proce…
Cycles of deportability
In recent decades, migration scholars have challenged reified categories of 'illegal' migrants and observed migrant 'illegalization' and deportability as exploitative sociopolitical processes. Yet, in the move away from studying 'undocumented migrants' as distinct epistemic subjects, we argue that scholars have lost sight of migrants as agents. Consequently, migrant lives are explained in terms of social determinants rather than migrants' intenti…
Credibility and Incredulity in Milgram’s Obedience Experiments
This article analyzes variations in subject perceptions of pain in Milgram’s obedience experiments and their behavioral consequences. Based on an unpublished study by Milgram’s assistant, Taketo Murata, we report the relationship between the subjects’ belief that the learner was actually receiving painful electric shocks and their choice of shock level. This archival material indicates that in 18 of 23 variations of the experiment, the mean level…
Effects of social-psychological variables on hypnotic amnesia
Three experiments assessed the hypothesis that suggested amnesia for a previously learned word list is a function of subjects' interpretations of the ambigous aspects of the amnesia testing situation. By manipulating preliminary instructions concerning interpretations of this situation, subjects who were unselected with respect to hypnotic susceptibility were induced to show either substantial increments or decrements in amnesia. However, subject…
The Fault is Not in Ourselves, but in Our Methods
Introduction
The articles in this issue represent a broad range of positions that nonetheless coalesce into a set of clearly defined but contested claims concerning the ritual of debate, the realism-social constructionism divide, and the relational nature of human sociality. I foreground these issues by contextualizing the question of academic debate and historicizing the social constructionist movement. Much remains to be done to understand the psychological…
Health psychology in autobiography
Three Canadian colleagues in health psychology recount their careers in a field of research and practice whose birth they witnessed and whose developments they have critiqued. By placing the development of health psychology in Canada in a context that is both institutional and personal, Stam, Murray, and Lubek raise a series of questions about health psychology and its propagation. While uniquely Canadian their professional careers were affected …
Medicalizing melancholia
The nineteenth century was the site of radical changes in understanding mental illness. The professionalization of psychiatry consisted primarily of the discipline's aspiration to the status of an expert medical subspecialty. While all forms of insanity were eventually reframed in medical terms, melancholia-for moral and nosological reasons-assumed a special role that made it an ideal diagnosis for conceptual reframing. Our analysis of the journa…
The Psychological Subject and Harré's Social Psychology
Taking Rom Harré's social constructionism as a focus we point to and discuss the issue of the a priori psychological subject in social constructionist theory. While Harré indicates that interacting, intending beings are necessary for conversation to occur, he assumes that the primary human reality is conversation and that psychological life emerges from this social domain. Nevertheless, we argue that a fundamental and agentive psychological subje…
Effects of social-psychological variables on hypnotic amnesia
Three experiments assessed the hypothesis that suggested amnesia for a previously learned word list is a function of subjects' interpretations of the ambigous aspects of the amnesia testing situation. By manipulating preliminary instructions concerning interpretations of this situation, subjects who were unselected with respect to hypnotic susceptibility were induced to show either substantial increments or decrements in amnesia. However, subject…
The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale
The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (CURSS) yields scores on three suggestibility dimensions. Objective (CURSS:0) scores and subjective (CURSS:S) scores reflect overt and experiential response to suggestion, respectively. Objective-Involuntariness (CURSS:OI) scores indicate the number of objective responses rated as feeling involuntary. Study 1 indicated that all three suggestibility dimensions correlated significantly with…
The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale
A normative sample of 400 subjects was administered the Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (CURSS) in small groups. The Carleton scale yields three suggestibility scores for each subject; objective (CURSS:O) scores reflect overt response to suggestion, subjective (CURSS:S) scores reflect experiential response to suggestion, and objective-involuntariness (CURSS:OI) scores reflect the extent to which objectively “passed” respons…
The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale
The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale was administered twice to 152 subjects in small groups. The interval between testings ranged from 2 wk. to 3 mo. The three suggestibility dimensions remained relatively stable across testings. For both testings scores on the Objective dimension (CURSS: O) were substantially higher than those on the Objective-Involuntariness dimension (CURSS: OI). This indicates that many subjects who “pas…
The Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program on Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome
Sixty-one patients clearly diagnosed as suffering from Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome (TMPDS) were randomly assigned to one of three groups, 1) hypnosis and cognitive coping skills, 2) relaxation and cognitive coping skills, or 3) a no-treatment control group. All patients were evaluated with a standard hypnotic susceptibility scale before treatment. The two treatment groups received four weekly sessions of their respective trea…
Suffering for science
In two experiments subjects rated their pain during baseline trials of cold pressor and finger pressure pain. After various instructional treatments, they were posttested with these same stimuli. As in previous studies, we found in both experiments that coping suggestions significantly reduced reported pain. Experiment 1, however, demonstrated that subjects often refrained from using available cognitive coping strategies to reduce pain unless the…
Psychosocial problems and interventions in a referred sample of cancer patients
Estimates of the psychosocial problems of cancer patients vary widely, depending on the nature of the assessment (e.g., psychologic testing, psychiatric interviews) and on the manner of assessment (prospective screening vs. retrospective chart reviews). This study examines the nature of psychosocial problems when these are referred by primary health care staff to a psychosocial service in a large outpatient cancer centre. Both problems and interv…
Theory & Psychology
The Legacies of Operationism and Positivism in Psychology
Theory & Psychology
Faculty genealogies in five Canadian Universities
For those who are both scholars and teachers of the history of psychology, a dilemma arises concerning the historiographic versus pedagogic value of institutional genealogies. As part of the undergraduate History of Psychology course, faculty genealogies were constructed at five Canadian psychology departments (Calgary, Guelph, Toronto, Western Ontario and York); an operational definition of “Ph.D. supervisor” represented mentor-student “institut…
The Body in Psychology
`The body', long a practical and theoretical focus in disciplines such as anthropology and sociology, has gradually emerged as a problem for psychology. The volumes by Harré, Radley and Ussher exemplify this trend-not only in their rejection of understandings of the body as entirely and implicitly biological, but also in their use of the body as a medium through which human experience may be articulated and socially grounded. This review consider…
Introduction the Body's Psychology and Psychology's Body
The Psychological Subject and Harré's Social Psychology
Taking Rom Harré's social constructionism as a focus we point to and discuss the issue of the a priori psychological subject in social constructionist theory. While Harré indicates that interacting, intending beings are necessary for conversation to occur, he assumes that the primary human reality is conversation and that psychological life emerges from this social domain. Nevertheless, we argue that a fundamental and agentive psychological subje…
The Body and Psychology
Theory and disciplinarity
Theory and disciplinarity
E. L. Thorndike and the origins of animal psychology
E. L. Thorndike's deliberate use of the experimental method and rejection of anthropomorphism and anecdotalism place him squarely at the beginning of a century of animal research in psychology. The authors examine Thorndike's critique of the extant research of his day and the development of his methods, including the important way in which animals and children were often taken as interchangeable sources of data for the new functional psychology. …
E. L. Thorndike and the origins of animal psychology
My own private Germany
Ten Years after, Decade to Come
In this editorial article I review the first decade of published papers in Theory & Psychology, particularly noting several tensions and problems manifested in contemporary theory. One of these is the tension between the universal and the particular, another is captured by the way in which the work of James Gibson and Ludwig Wittgenstein is in a limited sense representative of the kinds of problems articulated in the journal. I discuss the changi…
Logic or Psychologism
Theorizing Health and Illness
Health and illness in contemporary psychology are remarkably undertheorized, with the consequence that implicit definitions of these topics are unquestionably imported into health psychology. Largely inspired and oriented to the medical system, health psychology is often subservient to biomedically inspired theory or directed to solving the problems of the health care system, not those of its patients or those who might ultimately benefit from he…
Strains in experimental social psychology
A textual analysis of post-World War II social psychology methodology manuals and handbook chapters on "methods" indicates that the introduction of the experimental method was enforced and gradually strengthened through the use of scientific rhetoric and the minimization of alternative research strategies. As a consequence, by the 1960s experimentation had become such an established identifying feature of psychological social psychology that the …
Introduction
The articles in this issue represent a broad range of positions that nonetheless coalesce into a set of clearly defined but contested claims concerning the ritual of debate, the realism-social constructionism divide, and the relational nature of human sociality. I foreground these issues by contextualizing the question of academic debate and historicizing the social constructionist movement. Much remains to be done to understand the psychological…
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