Robert J. Sternberg - The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology

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Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108418690

DOI: 10.1017/9781108290876

First published 2019

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Sternberg, Robert J., editor. | Pickren, Wade E., editor.

Title: The Cambridge handbook of the intellectual history of psychology / edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Wade E. Pickren.

Other titles: Handbook of the intellectual history of psychology | Intellectual history of psychology | Cambridge handbooks in psychology.

Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019. | Series: Cambridge handbooks in psychology | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018050897 | ISBN 9781108418690 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781108406345 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Subjects: | MESH: Psychologyhistory

Classification: LCC RC467 | NLM BF 81 | DDC 616.89dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018050897

ISBN 978-1-108-41869-0 Hardback

ISBN 978-1-108-40634-5 Paperback

Linda M. Bartoshuk , University of Florida

John G. Benjafield, Brock University

Gary G. Berntson , Ohio State University

Robert A. Boakes , University of Sydney

Mark E. Bouton , University of Vermont

Emma L. Bradshaw , Australian Catholic University

Roderick D. Buchanan , University of Melbourne

Jeremy Burman , University of Groningen

James N. Butcher , University of Minnesota

Edward L. Deci , University of Rochester

Daniel J. Denis , University of Montana

David Devonis , Graceland University

Yuval Erez , Cornell University

Cathy Faye , University of Akron

Vlad P. Glveanu , Webster University, Geneva

Nick Haslam , University of Melbourne

David Hothersall , Ohio State University

Allison B. Kaufman , University of Connecticut

James C. Kaufman , University of Connecticut

Wade E. Pickren , Ithaca College

Petteri Pietikainen , University of Oulu

Michael I. Posner , University of Oregon

Valerie F. Reyna , Cornell University

Henry L. Roediger , III, Washington University, St. Louis

Alexandra Rutherford , York University

Richard M. Ryan , Australian Catholic University

Robert J. Sternberg , Cornell University

Christa L. Taylor , Yale University

Jeremy K. Yamashiro , Washington University, St. Louis

Briana Young , University of Montana

These are questions the senior editor has asked of his classes at Cornell University and at Heidelberg University (Germany) the last several years. The students are among the best in their respective nations. Almost none of them recognize either name, much less what they contributed to psychology. Thats a shame, because contemporary memory research would look very different, and much the worse, were it not for the influences of Bower and Tulving. The names of earlier greats of the field Clark Hull, Edwin Guthrie, Edward Tolman, George Kelly, Julian Rotter, Eleanor Gibson, even Edward Titchener (an early Cornell psychologist) draw similar blank looks from Sternbergs students. The students know neither who these great psychologists were nor, more importantly, what they contributed to the intellectual history of the field. The students know a few names from the past Freud, Piaget, Skinner but often have only rather vague ideas of what these thinkers proposed, as much of what they did is viewed today as history.