175 175 Index Action and Self-Development (Brandtstädter and Lerner), 139 agency, human. See also causality; selfdetermination and aggression, 70 compatibilist view, ix, 46, 68–70, 73, 78–79, 100–101 in computational reductionism, 96– 98, 129 and concept of self-esteem, 37 and conformity, 70, 71–72 in contemporary psychology, 57 definition, 82-83, 112 devalued by disciplinary psychology, 2, 8–10, 133 developmental theories, 63–67, 112-117, 139-141 as different from nonagentic phenomena of science, 11 discursive study of, 71–72 and ethics, 162 and everyday psychological phenomena, 44 and freedom of choice and action, 46–47 functionalist view, 129 in hard determinism, 46 in hermeneutics, 45–46, 74–79 and importance of language, 64 and individual and collective wellbeing , 164 and liberal view of individual self, 156–157 in libertarianism, 46 materialist view, 91–93, 129 measurement of, in applied psychological research, 58-59 not exercising, as choice, 88 and origination, 51, 115 person as agent, in philosophy, 55– 57 and perspectivity, 99 and psychological kinds, 11 in psychotherapy, 145-146, 150 and reductionism in disciplinary psychology, 2–3, 21–22, 38 reflective, 89, 113, 114, 115, 116 and self-understanding, 123 situated, emergent, deliberative theory of, 123–135 and social causation, 71–72 in social cognitive theory, 59–61 in social constructionism, 43 in social psychology, 68–70 theoretical psychology of agency, 67–73 and traumatic events, 24 underdetermination of, 81–101 and understanding, 76–77 versus universal causal determinism, 69 and voluntariness, 51 aggression, and agency, 70 American Psychological Association attempt to counteract conservativism in disciplinary psychology, 33 view of psychotherapy as “empirically validated treatments,” 146 176 Index Angell, James, 18 “antirealism,” in social constructionism, 42 Aristotle (384-322 B.C.E.) on freedom of choice and action, 3 reason and alternative possibility, 54 on voluntary actions and moral issues, 50 attitudes, measurement of, 35–36 Austin, John L., 51 Avineri, Shlomo, 157 Ayers, Alfred (Sir), 51 Bach, Johann Sebastian, 85 Bakan, David, 59 Bandura, Albert contribution to theory of agency, 58, 78 social cognitive theory, 59–63 Behavior of the Lower Organisms (Jennings), 13 behavioral reductionism, 17, 18–19 behaviorism. See also operant psychology behavior, as term, 138 in early 20th century psychology, 13 environment, as term, 138 radical, critique of, 135–136 replaced by neurophysiological and computational psychology, 90 “being-in-the-world” (Heidegger). See also “Dasein” (Heidegger) definition, 104 and reality, 104–106 and “thrownness,” 105 Berlin, Isaiah, 55 Bidell, Thomas, 66–67, 68 biological reality, 106–107 biological reductionism, 17, 18, 84 biology, and agency, 3, 4 Bradley, F. H., 51 Bramwell, Bishop, 50, 82 Brandtstädter, Jochen contribution to theory of agency, 58, 78 and intentional self-development theory, 64–66, 139 bridging laws, in type/type identity theory, 91–92 Bridgman, Percy, 19 Bruner, Jerome, 139 Budwig, Nathan, 139 care for oneself and others, 121, 122 and understanding, 121-124 Carver, Charles, 7 causality and determinism, 28 nonoccurrent causation, 129 realist account of, 69 in reductive functionalism, 95 central state materialism, 91–93 Cervantes, Miguel de (1547-1616), 34 children in intentional self-development theory, 65 language and worldview, 140–141 theory of mind and self-development , 63–64 Chrysippus, 3, 49 clients. See also psychology, professional; psychotherapists agentic form of requests for psychological assistance, 5, 6 hermeneutic view of problems in sociocultural context, 142 inward gaze of, and need for balancing outward gaze, 148– 149 cognitive developmental psychology and human agency, 57, 58 intentional self-development, 64–67 theory of mind, 63–64 cognitive-behavior therapy, 144 “collective efficacy,” in social cognitive theory, 61 commodity aesthetics and identity in Western culture, 34 and reliance on experts, 34 communion, in applied psychological research, 58–59 communitarianism on commitment to community life, 159 on community and the individual, 158 [44.213.80.174] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 12:28 GMT) Index 177 critique of liberal views, 157–158, 159, 163 and priority of community good, 163–164 compatibilism compared with libertarianism, 48 contemporary models of agentic decision-making, 53–54 and determinism, 51 and dissolutionist strategies, 49–50 and freedom of choice, 48–49, 50, 51 Hobbesian, critique of, 82–83 and human agency, ix, 46, 68–70, 73, 78–79, 100–101 intentional self-development theory, 66 and self-determination, 52, 100– 101 and situated, emergent, deliberative theory of agency, 131 and social cognitive theory, 60–61 underdetermination of human agency theory, 81–101 and voluntariness debate, 50 computational reductionism critique of, 98–100, 101...