A Literature Review: Is There Life After Death?
Michael Lewis, author of this article, holds a Ph.D. from Temple University in Experimental Psychology (psychobiology). Dr. Lewis is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, American Psychological Association, and American Association of the Advancement of Science, as well as the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 1995, he was ranked by a University of Notre Dame Study, number 1 in terms of the impact of scientists who are most referenced and productive in the field of developmental sciences and is currently in the top 1.5% of scientists referenced in the Social Science Index.
Critical Reflections
The dominant purpose of this article seems to be to convince the reader that after a certain psychologist who was strong in his or her fields died the chances for students or researches to refer to the psychologist work will drop drastically due to death. All of the reasons that Lewis discussed reflected powerful influence of both psychologists before death, both were involved in different sub disciplines within psychology and both influence occurred in different time epochs; consideration of other contributing factors was noticeably lacking. Besides that, not everyone agrees with Piaget’s research whether he is alive or death because they have been disagreeing since the beginning.
Although Lewis offered persuasive ideas to explain why references towards them drop drastically, both of his description of both psychologists’ attitudes and experiences included neither result from the present years till today instead from several decades back. Examples include author only uses two psychologists rather than using more. This may be due that similarities were not found in other psychologists’ death. Another example is the article only shows 10 years after their death “yearly percent of articles referencing (a) Clark Hull in Journal of Comparative Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology from 1942 to 1962: (b) Jean Piaget in Child Development and
Critical Reflections
The dominant purpose of this article seems to be to convince the reader that after a certain psychologist who was strong in his or her fields died the chances for students or researches to refer to the psychologist work will drop drastically due to death. All of the reasons that Lewis discussed reflected powerful influence of both psychologists before death, both were involved in different sub disciplines within psychology and both influence occurred in different time epochs; consideration of other contributing factors was noticeably lacking. Besides that, not everyone agrees with Piaget’s research whether he is alive or death because they have been disagreeing since the beginning.
Although Lewis offered persuasive ideas to explain why references towards them drop drastically, both of his description of both psychologists’ attitudes and experiences included neither result from the present years till today instead from several decades back. Examples include author only uses two psychologists rather than using more. This may be due that similarities were not found in other psychologists’ death. Another example is the article only shows 10 years after their death “yearly percent of articles referencing (a) Clark Hull in Journal of Comparative Psychology and Journal of Experimental Psychology from 1942 to 1962: (b) Jean Piaget in Child Development and
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