Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology

Name: Problematic Research Practices and Inertia in Scientific Psychology
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline\u2019s engagement with problematic beliefs and assumptions underlying mainstream research practices, despite repeated critical analyses which reveal the weaknesses, and in some cases complete inappropriateness, of these methods. Such paradigmatic inertia is especially troublesome for a scholarly discipline claiming status as a science.