TY - JOUR 
T1 - Gonzalo Guerrero and the Psychology of Identity
Y1 - 08-11-2021
N2 - Historiographic analysis is underused in academic psychology. In this expository essay, I intend to show that historical events or persons can be described with reference to theory and research provided by empirical psychology. Besides providing evidence-based grounds for a more penetrating historical account, the conclusions drawn from a historiographic analysis may feedback into psychological theory by generating new testable hypotheses. Whereas standard empirical research is focused on statistical associations among quantitative variables obtained in random samples, historiographic analysis is most informative with the use of extreme cases, that is, by asking and showing the limits of what is possible. This essay focuses on the story of Gonzalo Guerrero to explore psychological processes involved in identity transformation.
JF - Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities
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VL - 11
IS - 13
UR - journalofsocialsciences.org/article/73/
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M3 - 10.12944/CRJSSH.4.2.02
ER -