Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Where is the individual subject in scientific psychology? / Jaan Valsiner
  • Part I. Individual-based inference methodology : past, present, and the future
  • Psychology as a science : resolving the idiographic-nomothetic controversy / Isaac Franck
  • From idiographic approaches to nomothetic hypotheses : Stern, Allport, and the biology of knowledge, exemplified by an exploration of sibling relationships / Klaus E. Grossmann
  • The production, detection, and explanation of behavioral patterns / Warren Thorngate
  • Part II. Group versus individual-based inference in psychology : logic and practice
  • Phenomena lost : issues in the study of development / Robert B. Cairns
  • Between groups and individuals : psychologists' and laypersons' interpretations of correlational findings / Jaan Valsiner
  • The individual subject in behavior analysis research / F. Charles Mace and Thomas R. Kratochwill
  • The time domain in individual subject research / Evelyn B. Thoman
  • Ordinal pattern analysis : a strategy for assessing hypotheses about individuals / Warren Thorngate and Barbara Carroll
  • Part III. Toward the study of individual subjects : contributions from different fields in psychology
  • Academic diagnosis : contributions from developmental psychology / Herbert P. Ginsburg
  • A method for the analysis of patterns, illustrated with data on mother-child instructional interaction / Barbara Rogoff and Mary Gauvain
  • The role of the case study in neuropsychological research / Jane Dywan and Sydney J. Segalowitz
  • Psychophysiological activation research : an approach to assess individual stress reactions? / Peter Walschburger
  • Sequence-structure analysis : study of serial order within unique sequences of psychological phenomena ; Different perspectives on individual-based generalizations in psychology / Jaan Valsiner.