The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology

Informationen zum Autor Chris ChambersWith a new preface by the author Klappentext Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind! but can we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years! it has become increasingly apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence! questionable practices! and sometimes even fraud. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the discipline today and proposes sensible! practical solutions to ensure that it remains a legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead. In this unflinchingly candid manifesto! Chris Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to psychology that few of us ever see. Using the seven deadly sins as a metaphor! he shows how practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method! how they routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals! and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. He reveals how a culture of secrecy denies the public and other researchers access to the results of psychology experiments! how fraudulent academics can operate with impunity! and how an obsession with bean counting creates perverse incentives for academics. Left unchecked! these problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science--but help is here.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Chambers, Chambers Chris
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2019
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Psicologia > Psicologia teorica
• EAN: 9780691192277
• ISBN: 978-0-691-19227-7
• Numero di pagine: 296
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.5 x 23.5 x 2 cm
• Categorie: Wissenschaft, Neurowissenschaft, Wissenschaftsphilosophie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie und -theorie, Kognitionspsychologie, Debugging, Obsolescence, Crime, counting, Psychology, Psychologie / Kognitionspsychologie, Jargon, Kognitivismus, kognitive Theorie, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, Norm (technisch), Wissenschaftliche Standards, Normung usw., Psychologische Methodenlehre, Psychologie / Forschung, Experimente, Methoden, PSYCHOLOGY / Research & Methodology, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Neuroscience & Cognitive Neuropsychology, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Science, Bullying, Criticism, Fraud, Career, Scientist, psychological research, Publishing, Publish or Perish, Confirmation Bias, psychologist, Thomas Kuhn, probability, Paywall, schizophrenia, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Hindsight Bias, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Error, Meta-analysis, Psychological methodology, Psychopathology, Impact of science and technology on society, Scientific Standards, Scientific research, Cognitivism, cognitive theory, Finding, Distrust, Author, criminalization, Publication, cognitive bias, Fallacy, Delusion, misconduct, P-value, Confounding, statistical significance, Publication bias, False Discovery Rate, statistical power, winner's curse, Reproducibility, Plagiarism, Result, psychological science, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Null Hypothesis, Scientific Misconduct, antithesis, Impact Factor, Falsity, stupidity, hostility, Phrenology, misrepresentation, Academic psychologist, Detriment (astrology), Global catastrophic risk, Priming (psychology), False precision, False positive rate, Basic science (psychology), Mail and wire fraud, Psychonomic Society, qualitative psychological research, Hypothetico-deductive model, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Adversarial collaboration, International Union of Psychological Science, Perspectives on Psychological Science, Crime and Corruption Commission