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Taking the Historian’s Stance in a Natural Science

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Abstract

The most influential effect of Csaba Pléh’s mentoring on me was what I here will call “taking the historian’s stance”. I describe three of our empirical projects that were directly shaped by the historian’s stance: one on iconic memory, a second one on story recall, and our most recent one on mental effort. Then, in the appendix, I recollect some of my thoughts on how Csaba fostered this historian’s stance in us, and what this meant to me in the context of American scientific education that I have been the part of for more than 20 years. I conclude with some thoughts on how to introduce the historian’s stance to psychology students, based on Csaba’s mentoring.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLanguage, Cognition, and Mind
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages195-207
Number of pages13
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Publication series

NameLanguage, Cognition, and Mind
Volume11
ISSN (Print)2364-4109
ISSN (Electronic)2364-4117

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Language and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Cognitive effort
  • History of psychology
  • Iconic memory
  • Mentoring
  • Story memory
  • “historian’s stance”

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