Psychology and 'human nature' /

Main Author: Ashworth, Peter D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Taylor & Francis, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The ultimate biological motive : the evolutionary perspective
  • 2. Mental conflict : biological drives and social reality
  • 3. An inner world : cognitive psychology
  • 4. ... Not separable from the world : Skinner's radical behaviourism
  • 5. The individual consciousness : anxiously free in a meaningless world
  • 6. Social being : interacting, and presenting oneself as a person
  • 7. 'Human nature' as an outmoded cultural presupposition
  • 8. Conclusion.