Psychological Science Under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions

by Scott O. Lilienfeld (Editor), Irwin D. Waldman (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118661079
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	03/06/2017
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Scott O. Lilienfeld is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. His principal areas of research are personality disorders, psychiatric classification and diagnosis, pseudoscience in mental health, and the teaching of psychology. He is the author or co-author of numerous publications including 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology (Wiley, 2009), and is co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology (Wiley, 2015). 

Irwin D. Waldman is Professor of Psychology at Emory University. His research centers on the classification, development, and etiology of children’s psychiatric disorders and behavior problems, social behavior and social cognition, and temperament and personality. He is the author of numerous articles within leading journals in the field, and is an Associate Editor of the journal Behavioral Genetics. 

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Table of Contents

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: Open Science Collaboration 3

2 Powering Reproducible Research Katherine S. Button Marcus R. Munafò 22

3 Psychological Science's Aversion to the Null, and Why Many of the Things You Think Are True, Aren't Moritz Heene Christopher J. Ferguson 34

4 False Negatives Klaus Fiedler Make Schott 53

5 Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science Etienne P. LeBel Leslie K. John 73

6 Decline Effects: Types, Mechanisms, and Personal Reflections John Protzko Jonathan W. Schooler 85

7 Reverse Inference Joachim I. Krueger 108

8 The Need for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing in Psychological Science Eric-Jan Wagenmakers Josine Verhagen Alexander Ly Dora Matzke Helen Steingroever Jeffrey N. Rouder Richard D. Morey 123

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 Anthony R. Pratkanis 141

10 Popularity as a Poor Proxy for Utility: The Case of Implicit Prejudice Gregory Mitchell Philip E. Tetlock 164

11 Suspiciously High Correlations in Brain Imaging Research Edward Vul Harold Pashler 196

12 Critical Issues in Genetic Association Studies Elizabeth Prom-Wormley Amy Adkins Irwin D. Waldman Danielle Dick 221

13 Is the Efficacy of "Antidepressant" Medications Overrated? Brett J. Deacon Glen I. Spielmans 250

14 Pitfalls in Parapsychological Research Ray Hyman 271

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 Robert J. MacCoun Saul Perlmutter 297

16 Allegiance Effects in Clinical Psychology Research and Practice Marcus T. Boccaccini David Marcus Daniel C. Murrie 323

17 We Can Do Better than Fads Robert J. Sternberg 340

Afterword: Crisis? What Crisis? Paul Bloom 349

Index 356