TY - JOUR
AU - Altman, Irwin
AB - Irwin Altman University of Utah Psychology may presently be at the threshold of dramatic tant properties. First, it assumes that phenomena are changes, perhaps more so than at any other time in the composed of oppositional features that exist in a dynamic professional lives of many of us. It is true that the field condition of tension, for example, conflict and harmony, was affected significantly by the post-World-War-II growth interpersonal openness and closedness, conformity and in America, the upheavals in universities and society in independence, and so on. Later I will describe how psy- the 1960s and 1970s, the attacks on the "irrelevancy" chology, higher education, and American society reflect and narrowness of some psychological research, and the oppositional centripetal and centrifugal factors, or con- "crises" in parts of the field during the past two decades. solidating and unifying versus diverging and separating But to my mind what we psychologists face now is dif- qualities, respectively. Second, oppositional processes ferent. Unlike the noisy rhetoric of the 1960s and 1970s, form a unity or whole, with each pole of the dialectic we now see more subtle challenges to our traditional phi- lending meaning to the other, and with the whole 
TI - Centripetal and Centrifugal Trends in Psychology
JF - American Psychologist
DO - 10.1037/0003-066X.42.12.1058
DA - 1987-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/centripetal-and-centrifugal-trends-in-psychology-GMRwflIm2z
SP - 1058
EP - 1069
VL - 42
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -