Excepting, perhaps, for that whole "cognitive psychology" thing.  That
seems to consider most of what we consider "mind."

And there really is a reason for the environmental bias: the data.

m 


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It would seem that European schools of Psychology have a penchant for
placing more weight on endogenous factors to explain personality and
intelligence.
As a matter of fact,any controversy re genetic vs environmental
influences starts in Europe.The early history of psychology would
indicate that the Europeans were on a mind
trip:structuralism,gestalt,psychoanalytic,depth psychology.Biological
and insctintive theory may still predominate European psychology.
American psychology,on the other hand, still carries  an environmental
bias: functionalism,humanism,behaviorism and Americanization principles
underlying most  aspects of human behavior.American psychology seem to
have booted out the mind.
 
Michael Sylvester,PhD
Daytona Beach,Florida

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