Divinity and Duality: Willard K. Willis on the Nature of Man

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Zosuls Arizona State University. Zurbriggen University of California, Santa Cruz. Psychology is a play of theories, large and small, within the ambit of science. Psychology emerged from earlier sciences, especially experimental physiology, and from philosophy to become its own academic discipline in the late 19th century. Fashioned first in Germany, it soon found welcome in other European countries and in the United States.

Today, it is worldwide and omnibus in its theoretical reach. Mature science is marked by a vigorous dialectic between theory and data. A theory is a statement intended to account for a category of phenomena. Theoretical statements occur in various forms and are both delimiting and generative of hypotheses. That is, hypotheses generally proceed from theories to inspire empirical marshaling of data that support hypotheses or, alternatively, sound their death knell. Sometimes, data are sufficiently decisive to wield the coup de grace to a theory. Mature science also is marked by convergence on a unified theory of everything.

This aspiration remains unfulfilled across the sciences. Their histories are a repository of once-grand theories that dominated for a time, even a long time, but were eventually toppled or largely reframed by the usual nemesis—data. What you will learn from this encyclopedia is that the tent of psychological theory is capacious and crowded see Appendix B. But the vacancy sign is still on. The encyclopedia exists as an invitation. Some entries are listed under more than one topic. The number of entries within a topic ranges from 9 to Each entry ends with cross-references to related entries and a list of further readings recommended by the entry author s.

These features will further assist the reader in moving between the components of the encyclopedia that are directly relevant to his or her interests and also in extending those interests beyond the encyclopedia. The acquisitions editor was the first to contact me and did so at the urging of a former student of mine Bill Buskist , who is a SAGE author.

Our initial conversation led to my submission of a prospectus for a two-volume work. It was divided into several topics, each containing numerous subtopics.

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These were meant to demarcate sectors of active theorizing in psychology. All told, originally there were approximately 20 topics and subtopics. The metatheoretical entries are marked by a deliberately critical pose toward that current state. I asked each to review and revise the draft list of topics and subtopics and to nominate potential contributors as they felt inclined.

Their responses were invaluable, and to them I express particular thanks for bringing the list of entries and authors to final shape. At about this same time, the oversight of the project moved to the developmental editor and the reference systems manager at SAGE. My closest interaction was with them. Over a 3-year period, I personally contacted hundreds of scholars throughout the world with the invitation to contribute an entry to the encyclopedia. You will not be surprised to learn that not every invitation was accepted by the initial invitee.

In some cases, he or she was kind enough to recommend others in his or her stead. But just as often, it was mine to return to the published literature in search of new prospects. Draft entries began to arrive and continued until recently. I reviewed and edited each, and then returned it to the author with the request to provide further revisions as he or she saw fit before sending the final draft to the reference systems manager. Subsequently, I reviewed the revised draft, sometimes returning it to the author with a request for further revision. Eventually, each entry was accepted in final draft and forwarded to the developmental editor for review and copyediting by her staff.

In each case, I received the copyedited draft for final editorial review prior to submission to the production editor. I also compiled the Chronology and Resource Guide Appendix A and Appendix B , respectively , and the Bibliography Appendix C was compiled from the further readings provided by the authors.

My final opportunity for review came with the proof copy for each entry as well as the front and back material for the encyclopedia. Throughout this process, my sights were set on the publication of a knowledgeable and extensive resource that would serve well as a new addition to libraries across the world and, in that way, serve well their clienteles—undergraduate and graduate students, instructors in psychology and related courses, and those in the general public with a hankering to know more about psychology and its potential assets for better living.

From the outset, I sought to bring together a diverse array of authors in terms of ethnicity, nationality, institutional affiliation, specialty, and authorial style. Moreover, you may perceive an overrepresentation of authorship from my own institution, Brigham Young University. In addition, you may find your own subspecialty or subspecialties of interest to be underrep-resented. Even though two volumes are a generous provision, eventually there were hard decisions about the final collection of headwords. Please be advised that there was no template the presentation was required to fit.

Authors were on their own to treat theory as they best judged, subject to the constraints of the review process. I considered this granting of latitude to be consistent with the founding desire for diversity. If you are put off by this caveat or the two that preceded it, I accept full responsibility and offer my apology. Finally, I write from the heart. The conception and development of this encyclopedia is the largest sustained project in which I have engaged during my professorial career.

It unfolded in the context of full-time teaching, mentorship of undergraduate and doctoral students, research and research-centered writing and publication, other faculty assignments, and duties attendant to serving in my community as a member of its municipal council. The project was an ever-present consideration and, over time, became a labor of love. That these two volumes prove illuminating, instructive, substantive, and inspiring for their readers will be attributable to those I have acknowledged and will be partial reward for what has required thousands of hours by hundreds of devoted contributors.

Last, I humbly recognize the unsurpassing influence of three mentors who taught me about theory in psychology and, in their remarkable work, deftly exemplified its virtues: It ends in for two reasons. The first is a discernible consensus among historians of psychology about the figures whose theoretical work was particularly notable prior to that date. Nearly all who appear on the list are deceased. This encyclopedia provides a panoramic view of the possibilities. This guide points to further resources for theory in psychology as well as to a synergy between the publications it lists and the scholarly associations that appear subsequently.

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