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PERSPECTIVISM IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY: A FESTCHRIFT HONORING WILLIAM J. MCGUIRE'S WORK AND COLLEGIALITY

The editors of Perspectivism in Social Psychology: The Yin and Yang of Scientific Progress (2004), have gathered a collection of essays that are a tribute to William J. McGuire, a unique review of research from the past and present, and a guide to applying a perspectivist approach to contemporary research. The book also includes intellectual and personal reflections which provide a model of collegiality among researchers from different nationalities, areas and even opposing sides of a debate table. Indeed, one of McGuire’s seven “koans” is to embrace oppositional thinking (Banaji, Chapter 10). McGuire’s collected wisdom concerning productive research strategies is called perspectivism. According to the book’s editors, perspectivism embraces the notion that “all knowledge—including scientific knowledge—is contextualized or situated, that is, it is knowledge from some perspective” (p.3). Given this, “it is the task of the researcher [to] creatively generate and critically assess multiple hypotheses, each of which presumably has some domain of truthful application” (p. 3). The book is a series of 22 short essays. In her essay, “Clapping with Both Hands,” Phoebe Ellsworth eloquently analyzes the extent to which social psychology is following McGuire’s seven koans. Although we are successfully incorporating more diversity in our data collection and analysis techniques, Ellsworth points out our serious failures to sufficiently attend to the generation of multiple hypotheses. “Ideally, the researcher should actually entertain multiple working hypotheses, all of which she considers to be at least somewhat plausible” (p. 270). Ellsworth also convincingly argues that researchers have all but forgotten McGuire’s koan urging us to “observe people not data” (p. 266). The result is an essay which, in my view, should be required reading for all Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 5, 2005, pp. 741-746