New Ideas in Psychology 1993: Vol 11 Index

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NEW IDEAS IN
PSYCHOLOGY
An International Journal of
Innovative Theory in Psychology
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New Ideas in Psychology
An International Journal of Innovative Theory in Psychology
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Richard Kitchener, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, U.S.A.
Benny Shanon, Department of Psychology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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CONTENTS
NUMBER1
FORTHCOMING IN NEW IDEAS
IN PSYCHOLOGY
EDITORIAL
ARTICLES
Russell C. Leaf Control, volition, and the “experimental method”
Commentary
Ralph L. Rosnow Toward methodological pluralism and theoretical ecumenism: A
response to Leaf
John Laurence Miller Mentalism revisited: The case of learning disabilities
John Shotter Vygotsky: The social negotiation of semiotic mediation
Alvin Pam Family systems theory—A critical view
Robert J. Smith Eating disorders and the production—consumption dialectic
IDEAS IN PROGRESS
Benny Shanon Fractal patterns in language
BOOK REVIEWS
Clifford Hill and The interview as a research tool: Review of Research Interviewing:
Laurie Anderson Context and Narrative by Elliot Mishler; and Learning How to Ask:
‘A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social
Science Research by Charles Briggs
David Erlanger Who’s afraid of Alice Miller? Review of The Untouched Key by
Alice Miller; Banished Knowledge by Alice Miller; and Breaking
Down the Wall of Silence by Alice Miller
Peter Provet Helping the self without cocaine: Review of Cocaine Solutions:
Help for Cocaine Abusers and Their Families by Jennifer Rice-
Licare and Katharine Delaney-McLoughlin
lisa J. Bick More lack in cinema: Review of Psychoanalysis and Cinema edited
by E. Ann Kaplan
BOOK NOTICES
EDITORIAL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
NUMBER 2
FORTHCOMING IN NEW IDEAS
IN PSYCHOLOGY
ARTICLES
Jon D. Ringen Critical naturalism and the philosophy of psychology
Commentaries
Laurence D. Smith Making sense of epistemological pluralism: A response to Ringen
Ron Amundson On the plurality of psychological naturalisms: A response to Ringen
Jon D. Ringen Critical naturalism and relativism: A reply to Smith and Amundson
John S. Murnane The psychology of computer languages for introductory
programming courses
Stephen Downes Modeling scientific practice: Paul Thagard’s computational
approach
INTERVIEW
Diane Handlin Structuring the silence: An interview with Mary Belenky and Blythe
Clinchy
Commentaries
Mary Brabeck Recommendations for re-examining Women’s Ways of Knowing: A
response to Handlin’s interview with Belenky and Clinchy
James K. Zimmerman Developmental and contextual issues in Women’s Ways of
Knowing: A response to Handlin’s interview with Belenky and
Clinchy
Eric Amsel, Anne Constantinople Coherence and variation in the development of self: A response to
and Alyssa Zucker Handlin’s interview with Belenky and Clinchy
CRITICAL STUDY
Susan Engel Metaphors and knowledge: A review [The Body in the Mind: The
Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason by Mark
Johnson; Metaphoric Worlds: Conceptions of aR omantic Nature by
Samuel Levin; Symbolism and Knowledge edited by Jacques
Montangero, Anastasia Tryphon, and Sylvain Dionnet; and Death
is the Mother of Beauty: Mind Metaphor, Criticism by Mark Turner]
BOOK REVIEWS
Vicki J. Volbrecht Perceptual learning meets associative learning: Review of
Perceptual and Associative Learning by Geoffrey Hall
Ayla F. Kohn Deciding to care: Review of The Brighter Side of Human Nature:
Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life by Alfie Kohn
Janie L. Kritzman Where do we go from here? Review of Advances in Adolescent
Mental Health by Arlene Rubin Stiffman and Ronald Feldman
NUMBER 3
FORTHCOMING IN NEW IDEAS
IN PSYCHOLOGY
ARTICLES
Robert W. Mitchell 5 Mental models of mirror-self-recognition: Two theories
Commentaries
Gordon G. Gallup, Jr and : Mirror, mirror on the wall which is the most heuristic theory of
Daniel J. Povinelli them all? A response to Mitchell
Jacques-D. de Lannoy a Two theories of a mental model of mirror-self-recognition: A
response to Mitchell
James R. Anderson 3: To see ourselves as others see us: A response to Mitchell
R. W. Byrne : The meaning of “awareness”: A response to Mitchell
Robert W. Mitchell 351 Recognizing one’s self in a mirror? A reply to Gallup and Povinelli,
de Lannoy, Anderson, and Byrne
John Shotter Bakhtin and Vygotsky: Internalization as a boundary phenomenon
IDEAS IN PROGRESS
Baruch Nevo In search of a correctness typology for intelligence
INTERVIEW
Girishwar Misra Psychology from a constructionist perspective: An interview with
Kenneth J. Gergen
BOOK REVIEWS
John Shotter 5 The ‘poetry’ prior to science: Review of Vico and Humanism:
Essays on Vico, Heidegger, and Rhetoric by Ernesto Grassi
Charles W. Tolman An East-West dialog on theoretical psychology: Review of
Theoretical Psychology: The Meeting of East and West by Anand C.
Paranjpe
Barbara Duarte Esgalhado Charting a new course: Review of Mapping the Moral Domain: A
Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Theory and
Education edited by C. Gilligan, J. V.W ard, and J. McLean Taylor
with Betty Bardige

AUTHOR INDEX
Amsel, E. 267 Miller, J. L. 39
Amundson, R. 193 Misra, G. 399
Anderson, L. 111 Mitchell, R. W. 295, 351
Anderson, J. R. 339 Murnane, J. S. 213
Bick, I. J. 135 Nevo, B. 391
Byrne, R. W. 347
Pam, A. 77
Constantinople, A. 267 Povinelli, F. J. 327
Provet, P. 131
de Lannoy, J.-D. 337
Downes, S. 229
Ringen, J. D. 153
Engel, S. 273 Rosnow, R. L. 35
Erlanger, D. 127
Esgalhado, B. D. 421 Shanon, B. 105
Shotter, J. 61, 379, 419
Gallup, G. G., Jr 327 Smith, R. J. 95
Smith, L. D. 179
Handlin, D. 245
Hill, C. 111 Tolman, C. W. 419
Kohn, A. F. 287 Volbrecht, V. J. 285
Kritzman, J. L. 291
Zimmerman, J. K. 259
Leaf, R. C. 3 Zucker, A. 267
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