July 03, 2007
Falmagne re-elected president of psychology society
Worcester, Mass. - Psychology professor Rachel Joffe Falmagne was re-elected president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP) for a second term.
Falmagne, who joined the Clark faculty in 1973, draws from psychology, philosophy and feminist social theory to investigate how modes of knowledge are developed in societies and individuals, particularly how the discourse of rationalism has developed in Western societies. She studies how people appropriate, resist or transform various formative cultural discourses and how their reasoning about everyday situations and their personal conceptions of knowledge can be understood in the context of their social location and cultural history, with particular attention to gender, social class and ethnicity.
Falmagne received a Licence in Psychological Sciences and a Doctorat (Ph.D.) in Psychological Sciences from the University of Brussels, Belgium. She is president of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology. She is also affiliated with Clark's Women's and Gender Studies program.
The ISTP is an international forum for theoretical, metatheoretical and philosophical discussions in psychology, with a focus on contemporary psychological debates. Founded in the early 1980s, its objective is to stimulate theoretical arguments and innovations, foster integration across areas and traditions of research and promote interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to psychological questions. It promotes discussion of new theoretical ideas and conceptual frameworks, the critical engagement of different theoretical approaches, and discussions concerning the relation of theoretical psychology to other disciplines, the history of psychology and the philosophy of knowledge.