(Our new Psychology textbook will be available March 2012)
John Cacioppo and I are proud to introduce our new textbook: Discovering Psychology: The Science of Mind. This is not your typical ‘modular’ textbook that treats each topic as a separate, stand-alone unit. In the spirit of the great American psychologist William James, our textbook integrates the formerly disparate fields of psychology into an interrelated, breathing and living discipline. Just as we struggle to understand the nature of our being, we also study the ways we are nurtured and how this interaction of nature and nurture changes over time. We discuss how psychology is also one of the “hub sciences”–a major contributor to human knowledge and to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
Here is how our publisher describes a recorded webinar with John Cacioppo in which he discusses this new approach:
“We’d like to invite you to view author John Cacioppo’s recorded webinar on The Discipline of Psychology: How it’s changing, and implications for how psychology is now taught.
Description: In this online seminar John Cacioppo, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and past president of APS, talks about how the field of psychology has changed as a science in the 21st century, and will make the case for changes in how psychology is taught at the undergraduate level. Over the last 20 years Dr. Cacioppo has seen the discipline of psychology move from a discipline composed of many independently functioning subdisciplines to an integrative science which applies the total sum of its collective knowledge in its research and perspectives. As the field continues this metamorphosis it is important that psychology be portrayed in introductory psychology classes as accurately as possible, and that undergraduates come away from their intro psychology course with an informed view as to what it is psychologist do, and what it is the science of psychology is trying to accomplish. This webinar is really the beginning of a dialogue around these important ideas, and interaction will be highly encouraged. Join us, and begin the conversation!
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As always, I look forward to talking with you. Any questions? Feel free to contact me: laurafreberg at laurafreberg.com
