Henry James's scientific contributions
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... Henry James, like many writers subsequently, would label his era the "age of interviewing," and sat for interviews himself. 15 Modern interviews (talk conducted with the assumed purpose of publication) first appeared in American newspapers in the mid-nineteenth century; author interviews would quickly follow. Interviews mediate conversation across time and space while seemingly promising communicational immediacy; they can support "para-social interactions" (one-way interactions with the illusion of reciprocity and intimacy) between the mediated subject and their public, and have proven immensely popular with readers and publishers across the decades. ...
... He turned for a while to the study of philosophy and psychology, but while philosophy addressed more meaningful issues, it lacked empirical substance; and psychology, as most were defining it, was too much like the "nasty little subject" that William James complained about to his brother Henry, ". . . everything one is interested in is on the outside" (James, 1997). Still, it was psychology Rhine would return to, and try to stretch to his liking. ...
