The compatibility of two generations of American social psychologists.
This paper examines Greenwood's (2000) evidence for incompatibility between the early and later American social psychologists on the social conception of cognition, emotion, and behavior. The notion of the autonomy of the individual may offer the key to finding a degree of compatibility between them. Both generations, I argue, fundamentally accept the notion of individual persons as autonomous agents who are able to decide and choose to act and, hence, be responsible for their actions. Philosophical analysis can perhaps inform historians of social psychology on how carefully and critically to reexamine evidence for traditional claims of generational, paradigmatic, and/or foundational splits.
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University of Sheffield, Institute of General Practice & Primary Care, Community Sciences Centre, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield S5 7AU, England.
D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011593:Psychology, Social / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends*; D012919:Social Behavior; D014481:United States