Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology

Department-Sponsored Publications

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Culture and Psychology,
Edited by Jaan Valsiner, Clark University, MA

Sage Publishing Company, Publishers London: www.sagepub.co.uk

Culture and Psychology is the leading international journal in the area of cultural Psychology. It brings together scholars from approximately 30 countries to focus on the links between theory and empirical evidence on the cultural organization of human lives. It is an interdisciplinary journal with emphases on anthropology, sociology and history, as well as Psychology. For more information, contact: cultpsy@clarku.edu or visit the journal's informative web site. Valsiner is also the founding editor of International Journal of Idiographic Science.

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Narrative Inquiry ,
Edited by Michael G. W. Bamberg,
(Clark University, MA) and
Allyssa McCabe (UMASS Lowell, MA)

John Benjamins Publishing Company, Publishers

Narrative Inquiry is devoted to providing a forum for theoretical, empirical and methodological work on narrative. Access the journal's informative web site: NARRATIVE INQUIRY

From Past to Future,
edited by Jaan Valsiner

From Past to Future is charting a new role for the study of Psychology's history for contemporary and potential future research in the discipline. Each issue of the journal is dedicated to a specific idea (or person) from Psychology's past, which is analyzed as to how it can lead to further development of the discipline. Contributions of Karl Bühler, Tamara Dembo, Karl Duncker, Alexander Chamberlain and Zing-Yang Kuo have been featured in From Past to Future.

A working papers series, Clark Working Papers on Developmental Psychology, consists of original articles in Psychologyical development addressing theoretical issues and analyses, provocative empirical findings and new directions in methodology. It is a medium through which faculty and students can share their interests in development with each other and with the wider academic community, and a vehicle for soliciting feedback on work in progress.

Advances in Child Development within Culturally Structured Environments, edited by Jaan Valsiner. Contributors aim to integrate social and cognitive development research on the developing child within his/her environment. In the present context, “social” and “cognitive” development are not two separate or haphazardly intermingled domains, but are united into one: all cognitive development is social in its nature (as it is guided, although not determined, by the cultural environment), and all social development involves Psychological processes that are cognitive in their nature.

The Heinz Werner Lecture Series generally takes place biennially, and lectures are subsequently published. Some past lecturers and topics include:

  • L. von Bertalanffy "Organismic Psychology and Systems Theory"
  • J. Piaget "On the Development of Memory and Identity"
  • J. Bruner "Cognitive Growth in Infancy and Childhood"
  • B. Kaplan "Rationality and Irrationality in Development"
  • L. Kohlberg "The Meaning and Measurement of Moral Development"
  • R. Lewontin "Inside and Outside: Gene, Environment and Organism"
  • B. Shore "What Culture Means, How Culture Means"
  • S. White "Developmental Psychology as a Human Enterprise"

Perspectives in Ethology, edited by Nicholas S. Thompson, has for the last three decades provided a forum for new perspectives on the evolution of human and animal social behavior.