Volume 47 (2024), Issue 1

If psychology wants to pass its findings on to psychological amateurs, it must clarify its relationship to common-sense psychology. Common-sense psychology and scientific psychology differ significantly in their conception of the human being, their...

Positive psychology emerged at the turn of the millennium with a broad research agenda: The study and promotion of positive emotions, character traits, and institutions. Since then, it has not only played a key role in shaping psychological...

This article examines the aspirations of American scientists to advance humankind by reforming schools with state-of-the-art knowledge about human beings during the Cold War. The focus lies primarily on Jerome Bruner’s cognitive psychology which...

The public sphere of liberal regimes is undergoing significant change, as evidenced by an increase in moralistic discourse patterns as well as a change in the norms of expressing emotions in public debates. The paper proposes the concept of moral...