Overview
- Explores the basic concept of "catalysis"—in philosophy, chemistry, and recent beginnings in psychology
- Emphasizes the use of catalysis as a concept in a semiotic cultural psychology
- Synthesizes the conceptual and empirical development of catalysts and catalysis in (cultural) psychology
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Annals of Theoretical Psychology (AOTP, volume 11)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Applying the Concept of Catalysis to Everyday Life
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Conceptual Critiques of Cause and Catalysis
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kenneth R. Cabell is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow working within the sub-discipline of semiotic cultural psychology. Generally, his research interests focus on the cultural organization of human psychological functioning and experience. Specifically, his theoretical and methodological interests focus on developing a framework to better identify the mechanisms by which individuals make their experiences meaningful. His empirical interests focus on experiences of entrapment and other trapping phenomena. He is the Editorial Director of Culture & Psychology (Sage) and he is an editor of Psychology & Society. In addition to editing the book The Catalyzing Mind: Beyond Models of Causality (Springer) he is also an editor of the book series Annals of Cultural Psychology (Information Age Publishing). While at Clark University, he has been able to work closely with international researchers and scholars in the Kitchen Seminar Network (www.kitchenseminar.com) as well as with the Niels Bohr Professorship Center of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark.
Jaan Valsiner is the Niels Bohr Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University in Denmark, and Professor of Psychology and English at Clark University, USA. He is the founding editor (1995) of the Sage journal, Culture & Psychology and Editor-in-Chief of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Sciences (Springer, from 2007). In 1995 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Prize for his interdisciplinary work on human development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Catalyzing Mind
Book Subtitle: Beyond Models of Causality
Editors: Kenneth R. Cabell, Jaan Valsiner
Series Title: Annals of Theoretical Psychology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8821-7
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8820-0Published: 12 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5545-9Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8821-7Published: 11 November 2013
Series ISSN: 0747-5241
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2207
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 303
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology