Comment on Gergen's "Social Psychology as History"
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Life History Theory and Social Psychology
While occupying a relatively brief space in the history of scientific inquiry, many social psychologists have nonetheless recognized the need to integrate the field’s myriad findings into a coherent, meta-theoretical framework. Chester et al. (2012), consistent with the spirit of this movement, have answered this call by utilizing a Life History Theory (LHT) framework to understand the relation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0146-1672,1552-7433
DOI: 10.1177/014616727500100207