Experimental Psychology (eBook, PDF)

Ambitions and Possibilities
Redaktion: Gozli, Davood; Valsiner, Jaan

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Produktbeschreibung

This work brings together different perspectives on psychological methods and particularly methods involving experimentation. To encourage a reflective use of research methods, the authors illuminate the historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions of methodology, providing both defenses and criticisms of experimental psychology. The primary audience of the work are students and researchers in psychological and behavioral sciences, who have an interest in methodology

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031170539
• Artikelnr.: 66738521

Autorenporträt

Davood Gozli completed his PhD in experimental psychology at University of Toronto. He has been a visiting researcher at University of Vienna and a postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University. He worked as an assistant professor of psychology at University of Macau (2016-2021), where he taught courses on cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and history of psychology. His first book, Experimental Psychology and Human Agency was published in 2019 by Springer. Jaan Valsiner is Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, where he also leads the Center for Cultural Psychology. He has numerous contributions to theoretical, developmental, and cultural psychology, among which are the recent books, General Human Psychology (Springer, 2021) and Sensuality in Human Living: The Cultural Psychology of Affect (Springer 2020). A recent volume, Culture as Process: A Tribute to Jaan Valsiner (Springer 2021), was dedicated to his many contributionsto the field of cultural psychology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Culture & Psychology and Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science. 

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Finding the Place of Experimental Psychology: Introduction.- Chapter 2. From Introspection to Experiment: Wundt and Avenarius' Debate on the Definition of Psychology.- Chapter 3. Truth and Mind: How Embodied Concepts Constrain How We Define Truth in Psychological Science.- Chapter 4. Operationalization and Generalization in Experimental Psychology: A Plea for Bold Claims.- Chapter 5. The Role of Social Context in Experimental Studies on Dishonesty.- Chapter 6. What is a task and how do you know if you have one or more?.- Chapter 7. The Problem of Interpretation in Experimental Research.- Chapter 8. Methodology of science: Different kinds of questions require different methods.- Chapter 9. Conclusion: From experimental to experiential psychology; a small step for a discipline, a huge challenge for a science.