Going where the action is to conceptualize the person

Contemporary psychology is highly structured in terms of conventional and traditional methodological practices, including fragmenting, objectifying, and aggregating. Such practices sometimes impede understanding and investigating the person in terms of what he/she does as an integrated active individual who develops. The goal of this paper is to outline a systems conceptualization of the person as a developing individual who acts in relation to others in cultural practices. Such action is conceptualized as emerging through multiple and interrelated individual, social, and cultural processes, as well as in terms of multiple and interrelated domains of functioning that develop. This conceptualization is applicable to a wide range of issues in psychology as a whole. Moreover, starting with an overall conceptualization of action provides ways to overcome some limitations of conventional practices, and also provides a basis for conducting systematic and integrative research on the person.     

破除迷信要常抓不懈--记中国科协捍卫科学尊严、破除愚昧迷信、反对伪科学论坛第十次研讨会

2003年9月19日,中国科学“捍卫科学尊严、破除愚昧迷信、反对伪科学”论坛第十次研讨会在京举行,会议的主题是“破除迷信要常抓不懈”。中国科协书记处书记宋南平.中国科协第六届常委     

Going Home

Today marks two months since the city was in flames. What happened here is important to me partly because, “Los Angeles is my city.” I am a native son, born 52 years ago in the Queen of Angels Hospital. I carry in me both the pride and the inferiority that go with being from L.A.     

Going Tandem

SUMMARY

This article takes a humorous, anecdotal look at relationships through the extensive use of metaphor. The author compares relationships to tandem bicycle riding. He offers comparisons and similarities from his relationship experiences both on and off the bike. The article offers opportunities for the reader to interact and respond from their relationship experiences.     

Going forth in the laboratory

FORTH is a computer language that is useful for writing programs to control experiments. The language is extensible in that new capabilities may be added to FORTH by using FORTH. This article describes a FORTH application word set for animal psychophysics. The words in the application word set facilitate the translation from state diagrams of behavioral psychophysical procedures to experiment-control programs.     

退步原来是向前

从契此的“手把青苗插满田,低头便见水中天,六根清净方为道,退步原来是向前”偈中,反映了退让并不是完全的消极,有时反而是一种积极的进取,从而揭示出丰富的人生哲理。     

经济伦理道德建设：对市场经济的适应和超越

社会主义市场经济发展的现实要求我们必须加强经济伦理学道德建设。经济伦理道德建设必须建立在对市场经济的适应和超越这两个层面上 ,实现构想一种最低要求和最高要求相结合、广泛性和先进性相结合、现实性和理想性相结合的经济伦理道德价值体系 ,为进一步完善和发展社会主义市场经济体系 ,为实现社会主义四个现代化提供坚实的经济伦理保障。     

迷信与从众

安徽《文摘周刊》9月2日报道,近日,在河南某县有传言说:“外公、外婆给外孙、外孙女送把红伞能免灾”,整个县城陡然掀起抢购红伞的风潮,商家数万把红伞竟然迅速售罄。一条毫无根由的传言,何以有如此大的“威力”呢? 其一,传言击中了人们的从众心理。红伞抢购风潮的兴起, 仅仅源于一句传言。不少人是