Bill Adams, Ph.D.

Welcome!

This site is to capture my work and musings.  I  welcome your comments, questions, or feedback on any of it.  My email is at the bottom.

I am an academic psychologist, a teacher, researcher and writer, rather than a clinical psychologist.  I studied clinical psychology in school but did not become convinced that I could have much effect in that role. So I turned to research, where it seemed possible I might find out something of broad significance.  Click "BA Bio" if you want my story.  

Recent and Current

 

What Does It All Mean?  A Humanistic Account of Human Experience
 An analysis based on what we can know, not what we wish we knew, about the meaning of life, mind, and world.  Table of Contents and sample chapter.  Written for the general reader. Published in 2005.  

 

Publications
Recent
papers, conference presentations, book reviews
(These are more technical)

 

Books
Some interesting books I have read.  Not peer-reviewed.  See "Publications" for published reviews.
  

Empirical Introspection
The best way to study the mind is by observing it.  What if we had a kind of introspection that was public, accessible to any trained observer, and which would support broad empirical consensus.  Wouldn't that just change the course of modern psychology? (Unpublished manuscript)

 

The Three-In-One Mind
An unusual analysis of the human mind
(Written for the general reader- a work in progress)

 

Back Burner
Still cooking, odds 'n' ends, musings, online discussions

 

BA Bio
My autobiographical sketch

 

My Favorite Jokes

 

Some Good Videos
 A shortcut to my video review blog.

 

Political Rants
 A shortcut to my occasional political rant blog.

Shows & Events
 A shortcut to my blog of shows and events recently attended, in music and the visual and performing arts.

Stray Ideas
 A shortcut to my free-associative blog of stray ideas.

Words I Like

Some Good Causes
These are some of the charitable organizations I support.  

Chapman University College
University College is the adult learning component of Chapman University.  I teach the topics below.  If you are an instructor in any of these and want to share resources, please email me.
Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences
Introduction to Statistics
Theories of Personality
History and Systems of Psychology
Child Development
Critical Thinking
Introduction to Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Motivation and Emotion
Abnormal Psychology
Senior Thesis 
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