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Psychology for the Third Millennium
Integrating Cultural and Neuroscience Perspectives

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320 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Rom Harré and Fathali M. Moghaddam have designed a textbook and brought together additional voices that speak to the similarities and differences of two seemingly separate domains in psychology. This bridge-building seeks to encourage a new generation of undergraduate students studying psychology to more fully appreciate the real potential for the study of human behavior, and as such it will represent a more provocative alternative to standard general psychology textbooks. It also be used in a host of courses, namely on the conceptual and philosophical nature of psychology, social psychology, critical psychology and cognitive science.
 
PART ONE: PRICIPLES AND METHODS
Rom Harré and Fathali M Moghaddam
Psychoneurology: The Program
Rom Harré
Methods of Research: Cultural/Discursive Psychology
Rom Harré
Methods of Research: Neuroscience and Genetic/Evolutionary Psychology
P. M. S. Hacker
The Brain and Consciousness
 
PART TWO: APPLICATIONS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
Rom Harré
Perception
Rom Harré and Christina E. Erneling
Becoming a Person
Brady Wagoner
Learning and Memory
Rom Harré, Fathali M. Moghaddam and Gordon Sammut
Social Psychology
Sandra Jovchelovitch and Vlad P. Glaveanu
Motivation and Social Representations
Rom Harré
Emotion
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Intelligence
Rom Harré
Personality
Steven R. Sabat
Disorders and Treatments
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Psychology and Justice
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Intergroup Relations and Diversity in a Global Context

Overall Pscyhology for the Third Millennium: integrating cultural and neuroscience perspectives, in line with its aims, presents a less dualistic and more holistic and hybrid form of psychology....in part two the book comes into its own and the chapters present distinct topics and empirical examples, which are extremely useful for communicating the theoretical underpinnings to undergraduate students -
Dawn Mannay
Psychology Learning and Teaching


With this important new book, we finally have a psychology that is adequate to its subject matter: Human beings as acting persons! Every psychologist, and every student of psychology, should read it and prepare for the third millennium.
Svend Brinkmann
Professor of Psychology, Director of the Center for Qualitative Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark


In Psychology for the Third Millennium, Harré and Moghaddam provide a rich integration of neurological, cultural, and individual levels of analysis in psychology - the human actor as a biological organism, a social being, and a moral agent. Compelling reading!
Winnifred Louis
Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia


This book presents a new scientific basis for psychology, based upon the integration of cutting-edge scholarship in two areas often seen as wholly opposed to each other: neuroscience, and cultural and discursive psychologies. The concepts and methods necessary to enable this integration are clearly explained at the outset, and the benefits of this new approach are then illustrated with respect to a range of relevant psychological topics. For the most part, psychology is riven by a series of dualisms (e.g. between mind and body, individual and society) that have fostered inadequate methods and helped prevent its development into a science that is adequate to its unique subject matter. This exciting book presents a basis for this kind of mature psychology in a way that will be wholly accessible to students
Dr. John Cromby
Psychology, SSEHS, Loughborough University


Finally, a textbook for an alternative psychology, deeply rooted in the tradition of discursive and cultural psychology while simultaneously committed to recent developments in the neurosciences. It is both timely and welcome for those who have long sought to go beyond the received traditions in psychology
Henderikus Stam
University of Calgary, Canada



Excellent, great use of current thinking to advance the profession.

Mrs stephanie louise mcguinness
Early, North West Regional College
September 30, 2015

We have a subject with this name....our students would be delighted knowing abut this guide or book

Professor Jose Mestre
Psicología , University of Cadiz
April 14, 2015

This books gives the course on cultural psychology a bridge over to neuroscience and provides an interesting starting point of discussion for the future of psychology.

Dr Linda Fisher-Hoyrem
Seksjon for teologi og sammfunnsvitenskapligefag, Ansgar Teologiske Hoyskole
October 21, 2013

A useful text to challenging old divisions in psychology and encouraging students (and others!) to think outside the box.

Helen Gregory
Psychology (Francis Close Hall), Gloucestershire University
September 19, 2013

Very interesting to read book with new vision of psychology. It could be supplementary for my undergraduate students.

Mrs Inese Muzikante
Department of Psychology, University of Latvia
February 13, 2013

This is a fascinating book, which gives hope for the future of psychology and a much needed direction for social researchers. By far the best book I've read in a good while.

I will recommend to third year studies undertaking social constructionist and discursive projects and masters level students.

Ms Jenna Condie
Psychology , Salford University
January 5, 2013

I haven't found it more informative that the author's previous publications, already on the reading list.

Dr Raya Jones
Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University
August 20, 2012

This book explores some of the main issues relevant to contemporary Psychology and is a thought-provoking read.

Dr Karen Goodall
Psychology , Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
August 17, 2012

The book is written at a level not suitable for the student group. It is more suitable for post graduate students.

Dr Fiona McSweeney
Social Science , Dublin Institute of Technology
June 20, 2012

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter One


Horace Romano Harre

Fathali M. Moghaddam

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 McGill 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... More About Author

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