Hubert J.M. Hermans Emeritus Professor of psychology
at the Radboud University of Nijmegen His dissertation
(1967) was on Motivation and achievement and resulted in two psychological tests:
The Achievement Motivation Test for adults (1968; published in English in 1971)
and The Achievement Motivation Test for children (1971; published in German in
1976). As a reaction to the static and impersonal nature of psychological
tests, he developed a Self-Confrontation Method (SCM; 1974; book published in
English in 1995). Application of this method in practice led to the
establishment of the Dutch Association for SCM Consultants that counted 300
members in 2010. In the nineties of the last century he developed a Dialogical
Self Theory, inspired by the American pragmatism of William James
and the dialogical school of the Russian literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin.
Since 2002 he is president of the International Society for Dialogical Science
(ISDS) and since 2006 editor-in-chief of the International Journal for
Dialogical Science (IJDS). Together with Agnieska Hermans-Konopka, he wrote the
book Dialogical Self Theory: Positioning and counter-positioning in a
globalizing society, with Cambridge University Press, 2010. For his scientific
merits to society, he was decorated as Knight in the Order of the Netherlands
Lion in 2002. Website:www.huberthermans.com |