[ExI] brit psych

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:41 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> American psych is American.  What the British, Japanese, and Russians
(still totally
> Pavlovian?) have done is largely ignored in my experience.
>
> I recognized this early when I taught Personality and sort of fell in
love with Hans Eysenck
> and his theories.  American psych was heavily Skinnerian when I started,
and theories
> of any kind were not popular.

My understanding is the cognitive revolution in psychology kind of shifted
the focus from Skinner, though some would argue that it wasn't as much a
revolution as many think. But that's the view from 11,000 meters and I
wasn't a psych major, so YMMV. :)

Regards,

Dan
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