The Loss of the Romantic
Gain for the Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9022325 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kurt Salzinger (Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 30-37 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Humanistic Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1678 • E-ISSN: 1552-650X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022167899393004 |
| OpenAlex | W1979953957 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 11 |
This article rejects the idea that the crisis in psychology (if crisis there be) is to be explained by the loss of the romantic, by our failing to take advantage of the kind of literary descriptions of personality that our great writers and other artists provide us. Science gains understanding by reducing information to essentials, not by reproducing the complexity of the phenomena it seeks to explain. In defense of the “objective” approach to psychology, it is also necessary to point out that the study of individuals in all their glorious individuality can be accomplished by objective study, particularly by behavior analysis but also by psychologists following other models. Finally, a cold empirical look at the data shows that our intuition is often quite wrong and very rarely to be preferred to objective data when the latter are available
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Intuition · Personality · Psychoanalysis · Psychological science · Romance · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
The operational analysis of psychological terms.
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Experimental manipulation of continuous speech in schizophrenic patients
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,18 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2009 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |