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The Rediscovery of the Human Mind: The Discursive Approach
Author(s) -
Harré Rom
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
asian journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.5
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-839X
pISSN - 1367-2223
DOI - 10.1111/1467-839x.00025
Subject(s) - psychology , unobservable , behaviorism , cognitivism (psychology) , epistemology , interpersonal communication , symbolic interactionism , cognition , social psychology , expression (computer science) , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , computer science , philosophy , neuroscience , psychotherapist , programming language
The demise of behaviorism was followed by a period of cognitive model building, on Cartesian lines, invoking unobservable cognitive processes, then “mind behind the mind”. This has been followed by a second cognitive revolution which emphasizes the idea that mind is a flow of private and public symbolic patterns, created according to local norms. Basing psychology on this insight requires the preservation of the psychological concepts of ordinary languages as part of the basis for scientific psychology. The concept of ''skill'' can be used to link individuals with the matrix of interpersonal symbolic and practical interactions. The second revolution can be illustrated by recent work on emotion displays as discursive acts, and by studies on the role of pronouns in the expression of a sense of personal identity.