Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology (eBook)

A Manifesto for Reforming the Culture of Scientific Practice

Chris Chambers (Autor)

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2019 | 2. Auflage
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19203-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Why psychology is in peril as a scientific discipline-and how to save itPsychological 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 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. Left unchecked, these and other problems threaten the very future of psychology as a science-but help is here.

Autor

Chris Chambers is professor of cognitive neuroscience in the School of Psychology at Cardiff University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.7.2019
• Vorwort: Chris Chambers
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Academic publishing • Adversarial collaboration • Alzheimer's disease • Ambiguity • American Psychological Association • Article processing charge • author • Bayesian • Bayes' Theorem • Blog • Calculation • Career • Center for Open Science • Cherry Picking • Cognitive Psychology • Confirmation Bias • Counting • Criticism • Data • data set • Edition (book) • editorial • effect size • estimation • Experiment • experimental psychology • Explanation • fallacy • False positive rate • Finding • Fraud • Funding • Guideline • Hypothetico-deductive model • Impact Factor • Independent scientist • Institution • Jargon • John Bargh • Law of small numbers • Literature • Manuscript • Meta-analysis • Methodology • misconduct • narrative • null hypothesis • open science • Paperback • participant • Paywall • Peer Review • percentage • PLOS • PLOS ONE • Postdoctoral researcher • Post hoc analysis • precognition • Prevalence • Probability • Psychiatry • psychological research • Psychological science • psychologist • Psychology • Psychonomic Society • Publication • Publication Bias • Publishing • p-value • Quantity • raw data • Reprimand • reproducibility • Reputation • Requirement • result • Reuse • Sample Size • Sampling (Statistics) • Science • Scientific Literature • Scientific Method • Scientific Misconduct • Scientist • scrutiny • Scrutiny (journal) • Sharing • signature • Social Psychology • Statistical hypothesis testing • statistical power • statistical significance • statistician • Statistics • Suggestion • Tilburg University • Type I and type II errors • Whistleblower • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19203-0 / 0691192030
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19203-1 / 9780691192031