Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology

This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline's engagement with problematic beliefs and assumptions underlying mainstream research practices, despite repeated critical analysis which reveal the weaknesses, and some cases complete inappropriateness, of these methods.

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James T. Lamiell retired in 2017 after 42 years as a university professor. 36 of those years were spent at Georgetown University, USA. His scholarly work has long been concentrated in the history and philosophy of psychology, with interests in psychological research methodology and in the works of the German philosopher and psychologist William Stern (1871-1938).

Kathleen L. Slaney is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research has focused primarily on psychological meta-science.

Inhalt

1. Introduction (James T. Lamiell and Kathleen L. Slaney)

2.On the Systemic Misuse of Statistical Methods Within Mainstream Psychology (James T. Lamiell)

3. Psychology's Inertia: Epistemological and Ethical Implications (Fiona Hibberd)

4. Intransigence in Mainstream Thinking About Psychological Measurement (Richard E. Hohn)

5. Persistent Disregard for the Inadequacies of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing and the Viable Alternative of Observation Oriented Modeling (James W. Grice, Rafaele Huntjens, and Hailey Johnson)

6. On the Interpretative Nature of Quantitative Methods and Psychology's Resistance to Qualitative Methods (Donna Tafreshi)

7. Is There a Waning Appetite for Critical Methodology in Psychology? (Kathleen L. Slaney)

8. Psychology's Struggle With Understanding Persons (Jack Martin)

9. Summary and Commentary on Scientific Psychology's Troubling Inertia (Lisa M. Osbeck)