Culture of Science: Strange History of the Methodological Thinking in Psychology

Toomela, Aaro

doi:10.1007/s12124-007-9004-0

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“…On one hand, in the context of the primitive efficient causality epistemology followed by the majority of psychologists today, the advancement is obvious and enormously important. It only supports the conclusion, achieved in other publications, that during the last 60 years mainstream psychology has produced almost nothing theoretically noteworthy (Toomela 2007a(Toomela , b, 2010cToomela and Valsiner 2010). Obviously there is little hope for mainstream psychology to advance theoretically on the basis of primitive and out-of-date epistemology, as is clearly demonstrated by CCT.…”

Section: What the Concept Of Catalysis Can Offer To (Cultural) Psychosupporting

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A Structural Systemic Theory of Causality and Catalysis

Toomela

2013

The Catalyzing Mind

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This book intends to explore the basic concept of catalysis in philosophy, chemistry, and psychology, with the aim of developing the concept further in (cultural) psychology. This aim implies that the concept is, in principle, useful and the only question is how to use it most efficiently for advancing psychology as a science. In the context of modern mainstream psychology (see Toomela in press-c, for the definition of 'mainstream psychology'), indeed, any step further from linear cause-effect theory of causality is a significant advancement; yet it does not follow that the concept in the proposed form should be used.

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Section: What the Concept Of Catalysis Can Offer To (Cultural) Psychosupporting

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A Structural Systemic Theory of Causality and Catalysis

Toomela

2013

The Catalyzing Mind

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“…This was a standard experimental practice in Pre-World War II European psychology and was only displaced for non-scientific reasons (Toomela 2007). These early methodologists believed that it was only by looking at the single cases that we can construct a theory that applies universally.…”

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Narrative Form and Content in Remembering

Wagoner

2008

Integr. psych. behav.

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“…Surprisingly but Germany is an example of a holistic type of thinking (Toomela, 2007;Ash, 1998;Harrington, 1995). It explains the appearance of such works by Leibnitz, Hegel, Shelling and others devoted to a holistic approach to science.…”

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Facebook Birthday Postings from a Language Ecology Perspective in Russian, German, American English, and French

Olga

2016

JLE

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The aim of the paper is to examine Facebook postings from an ecological language perspective as a special type of discourse of "everyday life" with an orientating function, to evaluate the environmental potential of this network that influences the character of the posts, and to determine cultural differences in thinking and expressing birthday greetings on the Facebook platform. The paper outlines some specific features of the Facebook environment or niche such as the reduced characters of the message, the use of abbreviations, simple structures, merging and interaction of written and spoken languages, and the use of graphical signs to convey emotions. The methodological approach was to compile a database by randomly gathering, from various Facebook timelines, 680 birthday postings in Russian, American English, German, and French. The posts were then analyzed according to three dimensions: (1) focus of the greetings on the specific day or years to come / life in general (Western vs. non-Western countries, analytical vs. holistic mindsets); (2) use of nominal structures; (3) stress/emphasis on characteristic features of a person, compliments. Various psycholinguistic and cultural aspects of the verbal greetings from the timelines of Russian, American, German, and French users of the social net are singled out in terms of holistic and analytical types of critical thinking. The data collection shows that while Russians and Germans predominantly display holistic thinking, as expressed in birthday postings of a general character and wishes in general for the upcoming year or years to come, Americans and the French display analytical thinking as their birthday posts are more focused on that special day. Most birthday postings are usually short and have one similar pattern. Americans use a lot of praise and stress personal relations. French postings are very emotional often expressing love and kisses. This study shows that analysis of Facebook birthday postings should be multimodal and complex, taking into account a complex interaction of a number of internal and external factors and a personal inclusion into socio-cultural interactions.

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Culture of Science: Strange History of the Methodological Thinking in Psychology

Cited by 121 publications

References 37 publications

A Structural Systemic Theory of Causality and Catalysis

A Structural Systemic Theory of Causality and Catalysis

Narrative Form and Content in Remembering

Facebook Birthday Postings from a Language Ecology Perspective in Russian, German, American English, and French

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