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Theory & Psychology is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Social Representations and Identity, Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology, Philosophy and History of Science.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Theory & Psychology, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Social Representations and Identity Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology Philosophy and History of Science Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics |
| ISSN | 0959-3543 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 1.83 |
| h-index | 91 |
| i10-index | 888 |
| Total citations | 43,993 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Calgary |
| Journal website | tap.sagepub.com |
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The originators of the grounded theory approach to qualitative research now disagree on certain procedural aspects of the methodology, while agreeing on others, and dispute its epistemological implications. In this article it is argued that the rift can be traced to a conflict over the logic of justification of the approach. Strauss and Corbin endorse…
Positioning theory opens up a new dimension in the psychology of interpersonal encounters, through explicit attention to the role of rights and duties in the management of action. People are positioned or position themselves with respect to rights and duties to act within evolving story-lines, and on the basis of claims about relevant personal attributes,…
This article critically examines the recent turn to narratives as tools for identity construction and identity analysis. While self and sense of self will be used largely as synonyms, the attempt is made to draw up a distinction between self (sense of self) on one hand and identity on the other. Rather than starting with…
The paper traces the vicissitudes of the Yerkes-Dodson law from 1908 to the present. In its original form, the law was intended to describe the relation between stimulus strength and habit-formation for tasks varying in discrimination difficultness. But later generations of investigations and textbook authors have rendered it variously as the effects of punishment, reward,…
Modern disciplines both reflect and perpetuate a basic dualism. The natural sciences deal with a `material world', abstracted from human concerns, while the social sciences have, in their turn, constructed a world of `agents' disconnected from material things. James Gibson's theory of affordances was an attempt to counter this deep schism in modern thought by…
