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Front Matter
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In Zero-Variable Theories, Dr. Robert Wicklund invites the reader to consider the psychological perspective of the "explainer". In examining the over-simplifications that have become dominant in modern psychology, the author points to such factors as competition with other explainers and pressure to offer and promulgate a unique explanation. The explainer is characterized as equating theory with simple, fixed categories, and as defending those categories as one would defend a personal territory, fending off competing explainers through mis-use of statistical devices. The end result is the formulation of theories that neglect the perspectives of those whose behaviors are to be explained, and which simultaneously exclude psychological variables.
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Book Title: Zero-Variable Theories and the Psychology of the Explainer
Authors: Robert A. Wicklund
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3344-2
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97165-0Due: 23 April 1990
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7974-7Published: 28 October 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3344-2Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 156