Book review: The Constructive Mind: Bartlett’s Psychology in Reproduction [Book Review]

Memory Studies 14 (1):112-115 (2021)
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Readers who’ve wished to know more about the genesis of Remembering: a study in experimental and social psychology (Bartlett, 1932), will find in Brady Wagoner’s The Constructive Mind a treasure trove. Remembering was originally published in 1932, and is probably Frederic Bartlett’s most well known work today. Wagoner does not focus on Bartlett’s contributions to memory studies, though, but on the promise that Bartlett’s work holds for the field of psychology today, especially the study of thinking. Although rich in historical detail, The Constructive Mind is not only a work in history of psychology, but a critique—and, hence, implicitly, a programmatic work. Wagoner describes himself as a cultural psychologist, and this book as “the first extended and integrative reconstruction of Bartlett’s work and legacy.” The work also serves, he says, as “a case study in the diffusion and reconstruction of ideas in a science” (p. 5).

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Susan G. Sterrett
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