Psychology as a human science.

In commenting on an article by G. A. Kimble (see record 1986-07921-001) on the conflicts between scientific and humanistic concerns in psychology, the present author agrees with Kimble that psychology's contemporary acceptance of once-taboo cognitive research topics fails to overcome this schism and reconsiders Kimble's pessimistic conclusion that this factual dichotomy is an essential one. The usefulness of a conceptualization of psychology as a human science is discussed. (13 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)