Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions

Psychological Science Under Scrutiny explores a range of contemporary challenges to the assumptions and methodologies of psychology, in order to encourage debate and ground the discipline in solid science.  Discusses the pointed challenges posed by critics to the field of psychological research, which have given pause to psychological researchers across a broad spectrum of sub–fields Argues that those conducting psychological research need to fundamentally change the way they think about data and results, in order to ensure that psychology has a firm basis in empirical science Places the recent challenges discussed into a broad historical and conceptual perspective, and considers their implications for the future of psychological methodology and research Challenges discussed include confirmation bias, the effects of grant pressure, false–positive findings, overestimating the efficacy of medications, and high correlations in functional brain imaging Chapters are authored by internationally recognized experts in their fields, and are written with a minimum of specialized terminology to ensure accessibility to students and lay readers INDICE: List of Contributors vii .Introduction: Psychological Science in Perspective x .Part I Cross Cutting Challenges to Psychological Science 1 .1 Maximizing the Reproducibility of Your Research 3 Open Science Collaboration .2 Powering Reproducible Research 22 Katherine S. Button and Marcus R. Munafò .3 Psychological Science s Aversion to the Null, and Why Many of the Things You Think Are True, Aren t 34 Moritz Heene and Christopher J. Ferguson .4 False Negatives 53 Klaus Fiedler and Malte Schott .5 Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science 73 Etienne P. LeBel and Leslie K. John .6 Decline Effects: Types, Mechanisms, and Personal Reflections 85 John Protzko and Jonathan W. Schooler .7 Reverse Inference 108 Joachim I. Krueger .8 The Need for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in Psychological Science 123 Eric Jan Wagenmakers, Josine Verhagen, Alexander Ly, Dora Matzke, Helen Steingroever, Jeffrey N. Rouder, and Richard D. Morey .Part II Domain Specific Challenges to Psychological Science 139 .9 The (Partial but) Real Crisis in Social Psychology: A Social Influence Analysis of the Causes and Solutions 141 Anthony R. Pratkanis .10 Popularity as a Poor Proxy for Utility: The Case of Implicit Prejudice 164 Gregory Mitchell and Philip E. Tetlock .11 Suspiciously High Correlations in Brain Imaging Research 196 Edward Vul and Harold Pashler .12 Critical Issues in Genetic Association Studies 221 Elizabeth Prom Wormley, Amy Adkins, Irwin D. Waldman, and Danielle Dick .13 Is the Efficacy of Antidepressant Medications Overrated? 250 Brett J. Deacon and Glen I. Spielmans .14 Pitfalls in Parapsychological Research 271 Ray Hyman .Part III Psychological and Institutional Obstacles to High Quality Psychological Science 295 .15 Blind Analysis as a Correction for Confirmatory Bias in Physics and in Psychology 297 Robert J. MacCoun and Saul Perlmutter .16 Allegiance Effects in Clinical Psychology Research and Practice 323 Marcus T. Boccaccini, David Marcus, and Daniel C. Murrie .17 We Can Do Better than Fads 340 Robert J. Sternberg .Afterword: Crisis? What Crisis? 349 Paul Bloom .Index 356

• ISBN: 978-1-118-66107-9
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 21/02/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés