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Psychology and Values
Author(s) -
Smith M. Brewster
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
journal of social issues
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.618
H-Index - 122
eISSN - 1540-4560
pISSN - 0022-4537
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1978.tb00783.x
Subject(s) - psychology , value (mathematics) , personality psychology , dialectic , prejudice (legal term) , social psychology , differential psychology , personality , lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , epistemology , school psychology , moral development , applied psychology , philosophy , machine learning , computer science
Gordon Allport's contribution to psychology was infused with value‐related issues and exemplified ways in which psychology as a science contributes to the clarification of values. Values as conceptions of the desirable are at risk of attrition into mere preferences. Skinner would so reduce them. In application to personality (“mental health”), evaluative perspectives have not successfully crossed the barrier between fact and value. Nor has Piagetian developmentalism (Kohlberg, Loe‐vinger). No frontal assault on it works. Yet psychology can participate legitimately and has participated in the dialectic of value controversy. The social role of Allport's The Nature of Prejudice is cited as a model for psychology's dialectical role in social, historical process.