Metascientific foundations for pluralism in psychology

New Ideas in Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 253-262

  Watanabe, Tsuneo ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Explanation vs. understanding; First person point of view vs. third person point of view; Madsen's metascience; Metaparadigms; Three conceptions of humans

Indexed keywords

EID: 77549086746     PISSN: 0732118X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.newideapsych.2009.09.019     Document Type: Article

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