The seven deadly sins of psychology
Subtitle: a manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice / Chris Chambers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780691158907
Subjects: Methodology; Psychology; Research
Other titles: 7 deadly sins of psychology; Manifesto for reforming the culture of scientific practice
Description: "Chris Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to psychology that few of us ever see. Using the seven deadly sins as a metaphor, he 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. He reveals how a culture of secrecy denies the public and other researchers access to the results of psychology experiments, how fraudulent academics can operate with impunity, and how an obsession with bean counting creates perverse incentives for academics ... Outlining a core set of best practices that can be applied across the sciences, Chambers demonstrates how all these sins can be corrected by embracing open science, an emerging philosophy that seeks to make research and its outcomes as transparent as possible."--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sin of bias; title: The sin of hidden flexibility; title: The sin of unreliability; title: The sin of data hoarding; title: The sin of corruptibility; title: The sin of internment; title: The sin of bean counting; title: Redemption.