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The science of life as seen through Rose-coloured glasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Mike Anderson
Mike Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Western Australia 6907 mike@psy.uwa.edu.au
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This commentary takes issue with two of Rose's central themes from the perspective of the psychology of intelligence. In the case of reductionism, I argue that Rose fails to live up to his own rhetoric by claiming a veto from his own discipline (biology) over facts of the matter in another (psychology). In the case of “Lifelines,” Rose's argument is contradicted by evidence from both individual differences and developmental change in intelligence.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 886 - 887
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press