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Performance Capacity and Performance Style

Looking Back and Moving Forward in Psychology

Georgetown University

My point of departure is Mills’ proposal that we should break with existing research paradigms in psychology. Traditional psychology is deterministic and assumes (efficient) causation; a second, ‘normative’, psychology is evolving with an emphasis on meaning and context. Narrative is a shared focus of normative psychology and literature. Normative psychology facilitates the achievement of predictability, as well as universals, in accounts of thought and action.

Key Words: causation • literature • narratives • normative psychology • performance

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