Reflexivity and the psychologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12220554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jill G Morawski (0000-0002-4184-7393, Wesleyan University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 77-105 |
| Publication date | 2005-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0952695105058472 |
| OpenAlex | W2115172271 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 72 |
Psychologists tend to examine their activities in experimentation with the same objective scientific attitude as they routinely assume in the experimental situation. A few psychologists have stepped outside this closed expistemic practice to undertake reflexive analysis of the psychologist in the laboratory. Three cases of such critical reflexive analysis are considered to better understand the strategies and consequences of confronting what Steve Woolgar has called ‘the horrors of reflexivity’. Reflexive work of William James, Horace Mann Bond, and Saul Rosenzweig are examined: working in the early years of modern experimental psychology these scientists identified limitations in the dominant natural science model of experimentation. Attending to the scientist's own cognitions, social status, and unconscious processes respectively, James, Bond, and Rosenzweig criticized this natural science model and presented methodological and epistemic alternatives. The relative neglect of their constructive observations underscores the resistance to addressing psychology's reflexive dimensions
Constructive · Epistemology · Natural (archaeology · Neglect · Process (computing · Psychoanalysis · Reflexivity · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · Unconscious mind · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
Experiment as Spectacle
The Challenges for Us Psychologized Moderns
A pesquisa de intervenção na construção de competências conceituais
Subjetividade e Objetividade na Psicologia Contemporânea
Social Psychology
Subjectivity in psychological science
Challenging (the History of) Psychology
Person, psychologist, and psychology suspended in a phase 1 science
Seeing is believing
Our debates
A genealogy of postmodern subjects
Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and “pictures” of mixed-method research in psychology
Graphing the order of the sexes
“How do you like those boundaries?”
Practices in State Self-Esteem Research
Can the history of psychology have an impact
The moral economy of diversity
Technological simulacrum
Subject matter
Cultural-Historical Activity Theory and its Contemporary Import
The ambiguous “new history of psychology”
Neglect of the foreign invisible
Backlash against American psychology
Psychologists’ psychologies of psychologists in a time of crisis
Academic Voice in Scholarly Writing
Reasonable men
V. Feminist Questions, Feminist Answers
IV. Has the psychology of women stopped playing handmaiden to social values
Psychology and its publics
Psychology is not primarily Empirical Science
Considerações sobre o Fomento de Pesquisa em Psicologia do Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil
Joseph Jastrow, the psychology of deception, and the racial economy of observation
Epistemological Dizziness in the Psychology Laboratory
Off white
Causal Cognition
The principles of psychology.
Constructing the Subject
Psychologists on the March
Ecological Psychology in Context
Practicing Feminisms, Reconstructing Psychology
The looping effects of human kinds
The Disunity of science
Black Scholar
Inventing the Psychological
The One or the Other? Textual Analysis of Masculine Power and Feminist Empowerment
Just One more `Other' in Psychology
Categories and Embodied Objects
The Rhetoric of Irrationality
Implicit Cognition and the Social Unconscious
Rewriting the Soul
Trust in Numbers
Through the one-way mirror
The crisis of experimentalism in the 1920s
Salvaging the self in a world without soul
William James, the psychologist's dilemma and the historiography of psychology
The reflexivity of cognitive science
The psychologist's fallacy as a persistent framework in William James's psychological theorizing
Through the Looking Glass
The ‘Righteous Wrath’ of Pierre Bourdieu
Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective
The Rise of Experimentation in American Psychology
The Problem of Reflexivity in the Sociology of Science
The Intentions and Heritage of Descartes and Locke
One Moment in the World's Salvation
On the social psychology of the psychological experiment
Does reflexivity separate the human sciences from the natural sciences
Rediscovering the history of psychology
The Dynamics of Uncertainty
Of What is History of Psychology a History
Psychology. The Cognitive Powers
The Impact of Science Studies on Political Philosophy
Self-Regard and Other-Regard
The psychologist's frame of reference
The Image of Objectivity
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The black scholar and intelligence testing
Psychology, progress, and the problem of reflexivity
Science, Jews, and Secular Culture
Field Dependence Research
Education as a Social Process
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,74 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |