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- Presents the perspectives of leading authorities on the nature, possibilities, and limitations of psychological science
- Provides an understanding of the contributions of each of the persons interviewed to their respective specialism
- Offers an overview of the psychologists and the discipline as they are found in the early 21st century
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Those interviewed include pioneers who have shaped psychology as we know it today and who represent a wide range of specializations, from research to mental health practice, mainstream psychology to critical psychology and neuroscience to the Open Science movement.
Elizabeth F. Loftus, StanfordUniversity, USA
Jerome Kagan, Harvard University, USA
Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon, USA
Scott O. Lilienfeld, Emory University, USA
Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, USA
Robert Plomin, King’s College London, UK
Susan J. Blackmore, University of Plymouth, UK
Joseph E. LeDoux, New York University, USA
Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Roy F. Baumeister, University of Queensland, Australia
Erica Burman, University of Manchester, UK
Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia, USA
Vikram H. Patel, Harvard Medical School, USA
Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University, USA
Carol A. Tavris, independent academic,USA,
Reviews
“I am very happy to recommend Shaping Psychology to readers of the Skeptical Intelligencer.” (Michael Heap, The Skeptical Intelligencer, Vol. 23 (4), 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
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Wroclaw, Poland
Tomasz Witkowski
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shaping Psychology
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Legacy, Controversy and the Future of the Field
Authors: Tomasz Witkowski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50003-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50002-3Published: 03 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50003-0Published: 03 November 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 331
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Psychology, History of Psychology, Psychological Methods/Evaluation, History of Science