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Cooperrider's impact on the fields of leadership, human development and management theory is significant. [7] His work at Case Western Reserve University in the early 1980s on Appreciative Inquiry anticipated and helped bring about today's positive psychology movement, strengths-based leadership models, and positive organizational scholarship (POS).
Clare W. Graves (December 21, 1914 – January 3, 1986) was a professor of psychology and originator of the emergent cyclical theory of adult human development, aspects of which were later popularised as Spiral Dynamics.
Richard Eleftherios Boyatzis (born October 1, 1946) is a Greek-American organizational theorist and Distinguished University Professor in the Departments of Organizational Behavior, Psychology, and Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University, adjunct professor in People/Organizations at ESADE, as well as HR Horvitz Professor of Family Business.
Theoretical psychology is not fundamental or comprehensive theory of psychology, rather, for theoretical psychology to operate correctly it is important to supplement empirical psychology and give reason to topics and produce theories until they can be empirically verified by the other branches of psychology. [1]
Freud's theory of psychosexual development is represented amongst five stages. According to Freud, each stage occurs within a specific time frame of one's life. If one becomes fixated in any of the five stages, he or she will develop personality traits that coincide with the specific stage and its focus.
Case Western Reserve University (1979–2003) Roy Frederick Baumeister [ 1 ] ( / ˈ b aʊ m aɪ s t ər / ; born May 16, 1953) is an American social psychologist who is known for his work on the self , social rejection , belongingness , sexuality and sex differences, self-control, self-esteem , self-defeating behaviors, motivation , aggression ...
Social psychology utilizes a wide range of specific theories for various kinds of social and cognitive phenomena. Here is a sampling of some of the more influential theories that can be found in this branch of psychology. Attribution theory – is concerned with the ways in which people explain (or attribute) the behaviour of others. The theory ...
George Levinger (1927–2017) was Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. [1] Born in Berlin, Germany, he fled the Nazi regime with his Jewish family in 1935, first moving to Switzerland and then to London, before emigrating to the United States in 1941.