Fathali M Moghaddam

How Psychologists Failed

We Neglected the Poor and Minorities, Favored the Rich and Privileged, and Got Science Wrong

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book explains what has gone wrong in psychology, and what steps need to be taken for psychology to become a constructive global force."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781316513019
• ISBN-10: 1316513017
• Artikelnr.: 63700820

Autorenporträt

Fathali M. Moghaddam is Professor of Psychology at Georgetown University, where he served as Director of the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Science (2016-2021). He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology (2014-2021). His extensive publications include about 30 books and 300 papers, and he has won a number of prestigious academic awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. Why we must rethink psychology
Part I. Psychological Processes: 2. Cognition and decision-making in societal context
3. Mis-measuring intelligence and justifying educational inequalities
4. Personality and the power of context
5. Consciousness: Decontextualized and contextualized approaches
6. Motivation and resilience: Self-help myths and the reality of invisibility
7. Group life and diversity
Part II. Rethinking Behavior in the Larger World: 8. Mental health and 'be happy' psychology
9. Looking through the wrong side of prison bars: The psychology of injustice
10. Psychology for the masses in non-Western societies
Part III. Looking Ahead
11. Rethinking research methods
12. Revolution and psychology
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index.