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George Miller
Professor George Miller, from Princeton University, explains what psychology is, what psychologists do, and the importan
Jerome Bruner
Professor Jerome Bruner, from the New School for Social Research in New York, explains how the study of the 'mind', once
Richard Gregory
Until the present century vision was often regarded as a simple process - the eyes provide the brain with pictures of th
Daniel Dennett
Until recently psychologists shunned questions about the philosophy of 'mind' in the belief that they were tedious and u
Stuart Hampshire
One of Sigmund Freud's most important contributions to psychology was the notion of an unconscious mind which can guide
Jerome Fodor
In the 18th century it was assumed that the mind was 'transparent to itself '- that everything occurring in the brain wa
Norman Geschwind
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George Mandler
For most people the expression of such feelings as fear, anger, jealousy or love forms an important part of human life.
Rom Harré
The most publicised work in understanding human social behaviour in recent years has been the 'naked ape' approach which
Robert Hinde
Robert Hinde has spent most of his academic life at Cambridge studying the behaviour of birds and monkeys. More recently
Clifford Geertz
In Victorian times armchair anthropologists regarded tribal man as a fossilised remnant of our primitive ancestors. Clif
Ernst Gombrich
The act of painting a scene is normally imagined to be an exercise in manual dexterity. There is, however, a great deal
B. A. Farrell
The work of psychologist Sigmund Freud forms the basis of psychoanalysis, but his ideas have also profoundly altered the
Hanna Segal
Although psychoanalysis is usually associated with the work of Sigmund Freud, a number of psychologists have found thems
Thomas Szasz
Despite remarkable advances in medical science over the past century, there is still no clear medical understanding of t
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