Peter G. Ossorio

Peter G. Ossorio
Born(1926-05-04)May 4, 1926
Los Angeles, California
DiedApril 24, 2007(2007-04-24) (aged 80)
Boulder, Colorado
SchoolDescriptive psychology
Academic advisorsRudolf Carnap
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Peter G. Ossorio (4 May 1926 – 24 April 2007) was an American psychologist best known for his development of descriptive psychology, a pragmatic and theory neutral pre-empirical approach to the study of behavior.[1][2] Ossorio in his 2006 volume, The Behavior of Persons, explicated the concept of "Persons" by creating a conceptual map of the interdependent concepts of "Individual Person", "Language", "Action", and "Reality". He described persons as individuals whose history is, paradigmatically, a history of Deliberate Action in a dramaturgical pattern.

  1. ^ The Ethnogenic Approach. (1998). The Handbook of social psychology. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  2. ^ Lane Lasater, Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse, Janet E. Gustafson, . (2000). Recovery from compulsive behavior: how to transcend your troubled family . Los Angeles, CA: Wellness Institute, Inc.