Jaan Valsiner

Bio: Jaan Valsiner is an academic researcher from Aalborg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural psychology & Dialogical self. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 384 publications receiving 12659 citations. Previous affiliations of Jaan Valsiner include University of Luxembourg & University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dynamic process methodology in the social and developmental sciences

Abstract: The Unbearable Dynamicity of Psychological Processes: Highlights of the Psychodynamic Theories.- Reviving Person-Centered Inquiry in Psychology: Why it's Erstwhile Dormancy?.- How Methodology Became a Toolbox-And How it Escapes from that Box.- The Two Disciplines of Scientific Psychology, or: The Disunity of Psychology as a Working Hypothesis.- The Experimental Methodology of Constructive Microgenesis.- The Schema Approach: A Dynamic View on Remembering.- Against Reification! Praxeological Methodology and its Benefits.- Grasping the Dynamic Nature of Intersubjectivity.- Idiographic Data Analysis: Quantitative Methods-From Simple to Advanced.- Depicting the Dynamics of Living the Life: The Trajectory Equifinality Model.- Analysis of Intensive Categorical Longitudinal Data.- Advances in Dynamic Factor Analysis of Psychological Processes.- Hidden Markov Models for Individual Time Series.- Multilevel Simultaneous Component Analysis for Studying Intra-Individual Variability and Inter-Individual Differences.- Idiographic Microgenesis: Re-Visiting the Experimental Tradition of Aktualgenese.- Dynamic Methods for Research in Education.- Social Dynamics in Complex Family Contexts and its Study.- Dynamics of Life-Course Transitions: A Methodological Reflection.- Dynamic Methodology in Infancy Research.- Dynamics of Psychotherapy Processes.- Dramatic Life Courses: Migrants in the Making.- Innovative Moments and Change Processes in Psychotherapy: An Exercise in New Methodology.- Techno Parties, Soccer Riots, and Breakdance: Actionistic Orientations as a Principle of Adolescence.- Dynamic Processes and the Anthropology of Emotions in the Life Course and Aging: Late-Life Love Sentiments and Household Dynamics in Tuareg Psycho-Biographies.- Synthetic Phenomena and Dynamic Methodologies.- Developmental Science: Integrating Knowledge About Dynamic Processes in Human Development.- Cognitive and Interactive Patterning: Processes of Creating Meaning.

Changing Methodologies: A Co-constructivist Study of Goal Orientations in Social Interactions

Abstract: In psychology the need for methodological innovation along the lines of the co-constructionist paradigm is emphasised. The model of methodology outlined is a cyclical research process in which goal-oriented thinking and interven tional procedures are used by the investigator in interaction with investigated phenomena. Traditional psychology's concern with variables has led to a sepa ration of the different facets of the target phenomena and has not proved useful in studying developmental processes. Co-constructionist methods involve the re-interpretation of existing methods, for example, interview and it is sug gested that these methods are akin to the hermeneutic process of knowledge construction whereby the emergence of relevant and novel psychological phe nomena is possible. The microgenetic research strategies that are used help to retain the individual sequence of the phenomena in the constructed data. The co-constructionist methodological approach is used to study cooperative and competitive behavio...

The Individual subject and scientific psychology

Abstract: Introduction: Where is the Individual Subject in Scientific Psychology?- Introduction: Where is the Individual Subject in Scientific Psychology?- Individual-Based Inference Methodology: Past, Present, and the Future- Psychology as a Science- From Idiographic Approaches to Nomothetic Hypotheses- The Production, Detection, and Explanation of Behavioral Patterns- Group versus Individual-Based Inference in Psychology: Logic and Practice- Phenomena Lost- Between Groups and Individuals- The Individual Subject in Behavior Analysis Research- The Time Domain in Individual Subject Research- Ordinal Pattern Analysis- Toward the Study of Individual Subjects: Contributions from Different Fields in Psychology- Academic Diagnosis- A Method for the Analysis of Patterns, Illustrated with Data on Mother-Child Instructional Interaction- The Role of the Case Study in Neuropsychological Research- Psychophysiological Activation Research- Sequence-Structure Analysis- Epilogue: Different Perspectives on Individual-Based Generalizations in Psychology- Epilogue: Different Perspectives on Individual-Based Generalizations in Psychology

Culture and the development of children's action : a cultural-historical theory of developmental psychology

Abstract: This book provides a synthesis of research on a topic of increasing importance in developmental and social psychology - a general theory of child development that takes into account the culturally guided nature of child-environment relationships. The author presents an integration of theory with psychological phenomenology of child development backed by evidence from language research literature in psychology and anthropology as well as from his own research, which offers an appropriate basis for understanding child development in many cultural contexts. Because of the book's structural-dynamic perspective on child development it will be of value to both researchers and practitioners together with postgraduate students in developmental and child psychology, education and anthropology.

From Methodology to Methods in Human Psychology

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Learning by expanding: An activity-theoretical approach to developmental research

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The emergence of learning activity as a historical form of human learning 3. The zone of proximal development as the basic category of expansive research 4. The instruments of expansion 5. Toward an expansive methodology 6. Epilogue.

Remembering. A Study in Experimental and Social Psychology, Cambridge (University Press) 1964.

Abstract: Part I. Experimental Studies: 2. Experiment in psychology 3. Experiments on perceiving III Experiments on imaging 4-8. Experiments on remembering: (a) The method of description (b) The method of repeated reproduction (c) The method of picture writing (d) The method of serial reproduction (e) The method of serial reproduction picture material 9. Perceiving, recognizing, remembering 10. A theory of remembering 11. Images and their functions 12. Meaning Part II. Remembering as a Study in Social Psychology: 13. Social psychology 14. Social psychology and the matter of recall 15. Social psychology and the manner of recall 16. Conventionalism 17. The notion of a collective unconscious 18. The basis of social recall 19. A summary and some conclusions.

Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again

Abstract: From the Publisher: The old opposition of matter versus mind stubbornly persists in the way we study mind and brain. In treating cognition as problem solving, Andy Clark suggests, we may often abstract too far from the very body and world in which our brains evolved to guide us. Whereas the mental has been treated as a realm that is distinct from the body and the world, Clark forcefully attests that a key to understanding brains is to see them as controllers of embodied activity. From this paradigm shift he advances the construction of a cognitive science of the embodied mind.