Welcome to my homepage! My name is George Boeree (pronounced boo-RAY). I am a professor in the Psychology Department at Shippensburg University, where I teach personality theories and the history of psychology (among other things). I specialize in the philosophical side of psychology, and have particular interests in phenomenology, existential psychology, Buddhism, and moral development.
I was born in 1952 in a small town called Badhoevedorp, near Amsterdam in the Netherlands. I came to the US in 1956 with my parents and brother, and grew up mostly on Long Island. I got my BA from Penn State, and my MS and PhD from Oklahoma State, all in Psychology. In 1972, I married Judy Kovarik, the girl next door back in Bay Shore, NY. We have three wonderful daughters: Jenny, Merry, and Katey. We live contentedly among the Amish in the rural splendor of the Cumberland Valley of Pennsylvania.
Basic
info:
Class
syllabi:
Psy 101 -- General Psychology
Psy 270 -- Theories of Personality
Psy 440 -- History of Psychology
Online textbooks:
General Psychology -- All the basics, from neurons and the brain to psychological disorders and psychotherapyPapers:
Personality Theories -- The major theories, from Freud to Frankl
Teorías de Personalidad -- Traducción al castellano: Dr. Rafael Gautier
Persönlichkeitstheorien -- Übersetzung auf Deutsch: Diana Wieser
Social Psychology Basics -- From person perception to persuasion and much more
Grundlagen der Sozialpsychologie -- Übersetzung auf Deutsch: Diana Wieser
Introduction to Buddhism -- The Buddha, Buddhist history, selections from the sutras...
Qualitative Methods Workbook -- Phenomenological and other research methods
History of Psychology -- From Thales to Thorndike, Socrates to Sartre, Plato to Piaget...
Perspectives TheoryPhenomenological sketches:
Theorie der Perspektiven (auf Deutsch: Diana Wieser)
Seven Perspectives
Sieben Perspektiven (auf Deutsch: Diana Wieser)
Causes and Reasons: The Mechanics of AnticipationTowards a Buddhist Psychotherapy
The Ultimate Theory of Personality
A Biosocial Theory of Neurosis
Thoughts on the Spirituality of Atheism
A Phenomenologist Looks at Ontology
Quality Realism
Images and Ideas
What is Consciousness?
The Three Levels of Mind
Psychology Today and Tomorrow
InsightComments on education:
Pleasure as a Special Case of Love
On Thinking
Anger
Wut (auf Deutsch: Diana Wieser)
Humor
Nihilistic Tendencies in Psychology and the Phenomenology of Off-Color Jokes
Free Will
Alienation
Inferiority in AcademiaPersonality tests:
Teaching. Learning, and the Phenomenology of Meaning
Is Liberal Education a Trivial Pursuit?
Fromm's Orientations TestLanguage pages:
Big Five Mini-Test
Alienation Test
Values Test
Sheldon Test
Jungian Types Test
Lingua Franca NovaHopeless causes and other oddities:
LFN Wiki
World Flags -- Can't we all just get along?
The World Calendar -- Isn't it about time?
Mêlée -- A chess variant
Hobbit Chess -- Another chess variant
Pinwheel chess -- A chess variant for four players
Mini-Chess variants
Boeree Genealogy
Van Olffen Genealogy