Convergences and Divergences Between Phenomenological Psychology and Behaviorism: A Beginning Dialogue

Abstract

The major purpose of this article is to see to what extent the internal movements and developments of phenomenological and behavioristic thought and praxis in psychology may be converging despite the different language sytems that are employed and despite the fact that some honest differences may remain. The most popular knowledge of the relationship between phenomenology and behaviorism is based upon the Rice Sym posium edited by Wann (1964), and there the two systems were contrasted. Due to the fact that there is greater awareness of the more precise meaning of phenomenology among American psychologists and to the fact that radical behaviorism has emerged as a distinct movement within behaviorism, there may be reason to reinvestigate the relation ship between phenomenology and behaviorism and see to what extent the contrasting relation still holds.

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