Jerry Suls

I wanted to write to express my gratitude and enthusiasm for your book Casting Nets and Testing Specimens. As a social psychologist, I have kept with the method of relative frequencies (and it has been good to me), but I have had nagging doubts for years. Your monograph provides a devastating, but, at the same time, diplomatic critique of conventional methods, and provides a a better alternative. I had already been on the way to idiothetic approaches, but, although superficially aware of control systems theory, I had not made the leap to an individual level of analysis. Congratulations and THANK YOU for a marvelous and witty monograph.

        Jerry Suls Ph.D., Professor, Dept of Psychology, University of Iowa
        Comment on the first edition, September, 1991