Liam Hudson (1933–2005) was a British
social psychologist
Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the real or imagined presence of other people or by social norms. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the re ...
and author.
Richard Webster writes that Hudson's work provides the best introduction to "the general question of the psychological correlates of intellectual specialisation", and praises his ''Contrary Imaginations'' and ''Frames of Mind'' as "rich storehouses of evidence, insight and careful inference."
Books
* ''Contrary Imaginations: A Psychological Study of the English Schoolboy'' (1967)
* ''Frames of Mind: Ability, Perception and Self-Perception in the Arts and the Sciences'' (1968)
* ''The Ecology of Human Intelligence'' (1970, as editor)
* ''The Cult of the Fact'' (1972)
See also
* ''
Life Against Death
''Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History'' (1959; second edition 1985) is a book by the American classicist Norman O. Brown, in which the author offers a radical analysis and critique of the work of Sigmund Freud, tries to pr ...
''
References
Sources
www.timesonline.co.uk
1933 births
2005 deaths
Social psychologists
People educated at Whitgift School
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