Ulric Neisser

Cognitive Studies was already in business.) I was certainly not a major contributor to ecological
psychology, just a propagandist in its cause. And while I am indeed proud of my role in
encouraging the study of memory in natural contexts, I must admit that it would probably have
happened somehow even without me.
The main thing about developments such as these is not what part I played in them, but
that psychology has moved ahead because of them. It has become a very different science now
than it was in Boring's day, or for that matter in mine: far less dependent on charismatic
individuals and quarrelsome schools, much more closely connected to brain science, generally
doing more research and less talking. All in all I admire the new psychology greatly, but my
reaction is no longer "I can do this." It's more like "Goodbye and good luck!"
Books
Selected Publications of Ulric Neisser
Neisser, U. (1967). Cognitive psychology. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. (Also translated into German,
Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.)
Neisser, U. (1976). Cognition and reality: Principles and implications of cognitive psychology. San Francisco:
W.H. Freeman. (Also translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Russian and Japanese.)
Neisser, U. (Ed.) (1982). Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts. New York: W.H. Freeman. (Also
translated into Japanese.)
Neisser, U. (Ed.) (1986). The school achievement of minority children: New perspectives. Hillsdale, N.J. :
Erlbaum.
Neisser, U. (Ed.) (1987). Concepts and conceptual development: Ecological and intellectual factors in
categorization. New York: Cambridge University Press. (Also translated into Italian.)
Neisser, U. (Ed.) (1993). The perceived self: Ecological and interpersonal sources of self knowledge. New York:
Cambridge University Press.
Neisser, U. (Ed.) (1998). The rising curve: Long-term gains in IQ and related measures. Washington, D.C.:
American Psychological Association.
Neisser, U. & Fivush, R. (Eds.) (1994). The remembering self: Construction and accuracy in the self-narrative.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Neisser, U. & Hyman, I.E. Jr. (Eds.) (2000). Memory observed: Remembering in natural contexts (2nd Ed.). New
York: Worth Publishers.
Neisser, U. & Jopling, D. (Eds.) (1997). The conceptual self in context: Culture, experience, self-understanding.
New York:: Cambridge University Press.
Neisser, U. & Winograd, E. (Eds.) (1988). Remembering reconsidered: Ecological and traditional approaches to
the study of memory. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winograd, E. & Neisser, U. (Eds.) (1992). Affect and accuracy in recall: Studies of "flashbulb" memories.New
York: Cambridge University Press.
Articles, Chapters, etc.
Bahrick, L. E., Walker, A. S., & Neisser, U. (1981). Selective looking by infants. Cognitive Psychology, 13, 377-
390.
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