Unifying Psychology - RGP and APA

This month's issue of the Review of General Psychology is a special issue on Unifying Approaches to Psychology. I highly recommend it! The issue features 19 brief statements that move us towards a more unified field. Most importantly, the articles are not speculative pipe dreams; they are introductions to already existing and already productive interdisciplinary approaches also, later this week at the APA convention in Hawaii several of the authors, and anyone else who is interested, will be getting together in the Division 1 Hospitality Suite for a two-hour luncheon to discuss next-steps now that the issue is out (Friday August 2nd, from noon to 2). The ever-brilliant Daniel Hutto has generously offered to serve as host. The table of contents is:

1. Introduction to the special issue.

   Page 123
   Candland, Douglas K.
   
   
2. Issue Editor’s foreword.

   Page 124
   Charles, Eric P.

3. Unified psychology based on three laws of information integration.
   Pages 125-132
   Anderson, Norman Henry
   
   
4. A natural science of behavior.

   Pages 133-139
   Catania, A. Charles
   
   
5. Psychology: The empirical study of epistemology and phenomenology.

   Pages 140-144
   Charles, Eric P.
   
   
6. Radical embodied cognitive science.

   Pages 145-150
   Chemero, Anthony
   
   
7. The fragmented object: Building disciplinary coherence through a contextual unit of analysis.

   Pages 151-155
   Clegg, Joshua W.
   
   
8. Pragmatic case studies as a source of unity in applied psychology.

   Pages 156-161
   Fishman, Daniel B.; Messer, Stanley B.
   
   
9. An ecological approach to psychology.

   Pages 162-167
   Heft, Harry
   
   
10. Evolving from methodological to conceptual unification.

    Pages 168-173
    Henriques, Gregg
    
    
11. Psychology unified: From folk psychology to radical enactivism.

    Pages 174-178
    Hutto, Daniel D.
    
    
12. Describing, explaining, and optimizing within-individual change across the life span: A relational developmental systems perspective.

    Pages 179-183
    Lerner, Richard M.; Agans, Jennifer P.; DeSouza, Lisette M.; Gasca, Santiago
    
    
13. A developmental evolutionary framework for psychology.

    Pages 184-189
    Lickliter, Robert; Honeycutt, Hunter
    
    
14. Perceptual control as a unifying concept in psychology.

    Pages 190-195
    Marken, Richard S.; Mansell, Warren
    
    
15. A personality framework for the unification of psychology.

    Pages 196-202
    Mayer, John D.; Allen, Jayne L.
    
    
16. Enaction and psychology.

    Pages 203-209
    McGann, Marek; De Jaegher, Hanne; Di Paolo, Ezequiel
    
    
17. The role of developmental psychobiology in the unification of psychology.

    Pages 210-215
    Michel, George F.
    
    
18. Unifying psychology through situational realism.

    Pages 216-223
    Petocz, Agnes; Mackay, Nigel
    
    
19. Comparative psychology as unified psychology: The case of curiosity and other novelty-related behavior.

    Pages 224-229
    Pisula, Wojciech; Turlejski, Krzysztof; Charles, Eric P.
    
    
20. Hermeneutic realism: Toward a truly meaningful psychology.

    Pages 230-236
    Slife, Brent D.; Christensen, Thane R.
    
    
21. Neorealism: Unifying cognition and environment.

    Pages 237-242
    Tonneau, François