Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychology (eBook)

Context, Inference, and Measurement

Robert Ausch (Autor)

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2016
266 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-2415-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychologyexamines the relationship between academic and popular psychology from a critical perspective based in university-based research. This book looks at the methodological problems in psychology in relation to experimentalism, statistical inference, and psychological measurement.

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Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychology: Context, Inference, and Measurementexamines the relationship between academic and popular psychology from a critical perspective with a focus on issues of methodology. The monograph traces the path from ideas in reputable popular psychology back to the original academic research tradition from which the claims were generated. It also addresses the conceptual and methodological controversies with respect to the original research typically ignored or played down in popular writing. This book covers a range of topics including the question of universal biases in judgment, resurgent notions of ';fast' thinking and a cognitive unconscious, the psychology of happiness and other ';positive' psychologies, the effects of parenting on child outcomes, and more general issues related to psychological tests and measures. The methodological problems that emerge include problems with generalizing from specific experimental conditions, highly biased sampling, lack of replication of findings, lack of shared referents across subfields, even different authors, as well as confusion around basic statistical and mathematical issues. Methodological Problems with the Academic Sources of Popular Psychology: Context, Inference, and Measurementreviews these issues extensively, offering both a sense of the history and pervasiveness of these issues in the field itself and an opportunity to review and master these difficult ideas.

Autor

Robert Ausch is assistant professor at New York University.

Inhalt

IntroductionChapter One: The Past and Present Landscape of Pop PsychologyChapter Two: The Psychology of Cognitive BiasesChapter Three: Fast Systems and Unconscious CognitionChapter Four: Happiness Psychology and UncertaintyChapter Five: The Effects of Parenting: Correlations and CausesChapter Six: Psychological Measurement: IQ, Personality, and Emotional IntelligenceConclusion: How to Read Pop Psychology

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.2.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 1 Illustrations including: - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Schlagworte: causes and correlations • Critical Psychology • effects of parenting • Null Hypothesis Significance Testing • pop psychology • positive psychology • Psychological measurement • psychological methods • psychology of the unconscious
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-2415-X / 149852415X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-2415-5 / 9781498524155