03345nam a22004455i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050000900153072001600162072002300178072001500201100007900216245010900295250001800404264006900422300003300491336002600524337002600550338003600576347002400612490004500636505029000681520155800971650001602529650003002545650002302575650002802598650002702626650002302653710003402676773002602710776003602736776003602772830004502808856004602853978-3-031-69402-8DE-He21320251030113117.0cr nn 008mamaa240930s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316940287 a10.1007/978-3-031-69402-82doi 4aBF38 7aJMA2bicssc 7aPSY0000002bisacsh 7aJMA2thema1 aLocurto, Charles.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aPsychological Scienceh[electronic resource] :bThe Consequences of Choosing Soft /cby Charles Locurto.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aVII, 86 p.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSpringerBriefs in Psychology,x2192-83710 aChapter 1. Darwin and choosing soft -- Chapter 2. The Dodo rule and raising self-esteem -- Chapter 3. Intelligence and the Holy Grail -- Chapter 4. Standardized Testing and mismatch -- Chapter 5. Unconscious bias -- Chapter 6. Data too good, data too strange -- Chapter 7. A Summation.  aThis book challenges questions like what happens when shortcuts are allowed in the design, analysis, and interpretation of psychological research. The author argues that shortcuts lead to experimental results that are of low power and lack precision that should be afforded experimental work. Consequently, it should not be surprising that psychological science has difficulty replicating its findings. Another discussed topic is the lack of success of self-esteem training techniques despite their widespread usage. The failure of self-esteem training is contrasted with the success of work that involves the use of standardized testing procedures and scores, such as IQ. From this perspective, while self-esteem and IQ testing have been proposed as pinnacles, meaning that they constitute comprehensive influences on many aspects of behavior, only IQ can function as a Holy Grail. It is also argued that some areas of social science, particularly unconscious bias, have not been subjected to sufficient critical scrutiny, and therefore are associated with rather weak empirical profiles that do not justify the popularity of the procedures. Throughout the book, the work habits of modern scientists are contrasted with those of one of science’s most successful practitioners, Charles Darwin, and to a lesser extent, Sigmund Freud. The contrasts between the historically-validated work of Darwin on the one hand, and on the other, modern psychological science of Freud , suggest avenues of methodological improvement for modern psychological science. 0aPsychology. 0aSocial sciencesxHistory. 0aSocial psychology.14aTheoretical Psychology.24aHistory of Psychology.24aSocial Psychology.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303169401108iPrinted edition:z9783031694035 0aSpringerBriefs in Psychology,x2192-837140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69402-8