Rom Harre & Fathali M. Moghaddam 
Psychology for the Third Millennium 
Integrating Cultural and Neuroscience Perspectives

As the 21st Century opened, the discipline of psychology seemed to be separating into two radically distinct domains. Qualitative and Cultural Psychology focused on the discursive means for the management of meaning in a world of norms, while Neuropsychology and Neuroscience focused on the investigation of brain processes. These two domains can be reconciled in a hybrid science that brings them together into a synthesis more powerful than anything psychologists have achieved before. For the first time, there is the possibility of a general psychology in which the biological and the cultural aspects of human life coalesce into a unitas multiplex, unity in diversity.

 

This textbook ambitiously aims to and succeeds in providing this unity. Fathali M. Moghaddam and Rom Harré have designed a textbook brought together with additional voices that speak to the similarities and differences of these two seemingly distinctive domains. This bridge-building will encourage a new generation of undergraduate students studying psychology to more fully appreciate the real potential for the study of human behaviour, and as such it will represent a more provocative alternative to standard general psychology textbooks. It also support teaching in a host of courses, namely 2nd and 3rd courses on the conceptual and philosophical nature of psychology, social psychology, critical psychology and cognitive science. Selectively, it will also represent a very interesting and different choice for foundation level students too.

Daftar Isi

PART ONE: PRICIPLES AND METHODS

Psychoneurology: The Program – Rom Harré and Fathali M Moghaddam

Methods of Research: Cultural/Discursive Psychology – Rom Harré

Methods of Research: Neuroscience and Genetic/Evolutionary Psychology – Rom Harré

The Brain and Consciousness – P. M. S. Hacker

PART TWO: APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS

Perception – Rom Harré

Becoming a Person – Rom Harré and Christina E. Erneling

Learning and Memory – Brady Wagoner

Social Psychology – Rom Harré, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Gordon Sammut

Motivation and Social Representations – Sandra Jovchelovitch and Vlad P. Glaveanu

Emotion – Rom Harré

Intelligence – Fathali M. Moghaddam

Personality – Rom Harré

Disorders and Treatments – Steven R. Sabat

Psychology and Justice – Fathali M. Moghaddam

Intergroup Relations and Diversity in a Global Context – Fathali M. Moghaddam

Tentang Penulis

Fathali Moghaddam is Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, and the editor of Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (a quarterly journal published by the American Psychological Association). Dr. Moghaddam was born in Iran, was educated from an early age in England, and worked for the United Nations and for Mc Gill University before joining Georgetown in 1990. He returned to Iran in the ‘spring of revolution’ in 1979 and was researching there during the hostage-taking crisis and the early years of the Iran-Iraq war. He has conducted experimental and field research in numerous cultural contexts and published extensively on radicalization, intergroup conflict, human rights and duties, the psychology of dictatorship and democracy, and causal explanations. He has received a number of prestigious academic awards, and his most recent books include The Psychology of Democracy (2016), The Psychology of Dictatorship (2013), and Questioning Causality: Scientific Explorations of Cause and Consequence Across Social Contexts (2016, with Rom Harré).