Very little in the published histories of psychology prepares us for the giant that emerges from the pages of Geraldine Jonçich’s The Sane Positivist: A Biography of Edward L. Thorndike (1968). In his history of experimental psychology, Boring (1950) devotes two pages to the man, sandwiched in among other notes on ‘‘Columbia’s Functional Psychology.’’ But Thorndike himself had been almost equal...

Many people think that all you need to succeed at anything is talent but talent alone without perseverance and determination, cannot help you achieve success. Talent is helpful but perseverance ensured one achieves success. A child can show an exceptional talent for storytelling, but if he ignores his teacher’s comments and doesn’t work on his stories, he will never be a great novel...

Communication includes all the ways that human beings can influence others. This involves not only speaking or writing, but also all human behavior in various ways, so there are two types of communicational signs that human beings use: verbal and non-verbal signs. In communication science, special attention has been paid to how non-verbal signs influence message transmission. The research has s...

Since more than half a century, Pierre Hippolyte Auguste Jolivet has been the inspiring head of the community of leaf beetle researchers (Fig. 1). He promoted research on Chrysomelidae not only by his nearly 500 publications (see list below), but even more so by his personal input to the international and European symposia on leaf beetles, and especially by the six volumes he co-edited (nos. 27...

In the chapter “Religious Opinions” of his Autobiography, Darwin sustains that, after the law of natural selection has been discovered, the old argument about a “design” of nature as written by Paley falls apart, the same argument which he believed to be decisive in the past. So, in accordance with Darwin, we can no longer argue, for example, that the perfect hinge of a bivalve shell must have ...

This paper focuses on the presentation of the body in Martin Amis's memoir Experience (2000) and compares Amis's account of the growth of his mind and body with ideas put forward by writers in the phenomenological and psychoanalytic traditions. Using the ideas of body schema, projective identification and idea of safety, it advances a new conceptual framework for the thinking about the contribu...