Psychology’s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-12133-4 (ISBN)
James T. Lamiell is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown University, USA after having spent thirty-six years on the faculty at that institution. He holds the 2001 Bunn Award for Faculty Excellence at Georgetown, and is a three-time Fulbright scholar to Germany. He has authored four books and translated a fifth.
Chapter 1: Introduction: Mainstream Psychology's Worrisome Incorrigibility.- Chapter 2: Challenging the Canon: The Critique and its Aftermath in Autobiographical Perspective.- Chapter 3: The Entrenchment of Statistical Thinking in Early Twentieth Century.- Differential Psychology.- Chapter 4: The Failure of Critical Thinking in the Statistization of Experimental Psychology.- Chapter 5: Statistical Thinking in Psychology: Some Needed Critical Perspective on What 'Everyone Knows'.- Chapter 6: 'Statisticism' in Psychology as a Socio-Ethical Problem.- Chapter 7: In Quest of Meaningful Change.
Erscheinungsdatum | 07.07.2020 |
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Reihe/Serie | Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology |
Zusatzinfo | XXI, 179 p. 7 illus. |
Verlagsort | Cham |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Gewicht | 274 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
Schlagworte | 20th century personality psychology • critiques of statistically-based knowledge • ethics • knowledge claims • Psycho-demography • psychological statistical findings • Psychological Statistics • scientific psychology • socio-ethics • statistically-based knowledge claims • statistical methods in psychology research • variation studies |
ISBN-10 | 3-030-12133-X / 303012133X |
ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-12133-4 / 9783030121334 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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