03731nam a22005295i 4500 978-3-031-69402-8 DE-He213 20251030113117.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240930s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031694028 978-3-031-69402-8 10.1007/978-3-031-69402-8 doi BF38 JMA bicssc PSY000000 bisacsh JMA thema Locurto, Charles. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 85333 Psychological Science [electronic resource] : The Consequences of Choosing Soft / by Charles Locurto. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. VII, 86 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda SpringerBriefs in Psychology, 2192-8371 Chapter 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. This 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. Psychology. 63758 Social sciences History. 73739 Social psychology. 59087 Theoretical Psychology. 78388 History of Psychology. 73741 Social Psychology. 59087 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031694011 Printed edition: 9783031694035 SpringerBriefs in Psychology, 2192-8371 71282 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69402-8 ZDB-2-BSP ZDB-2-SXBP 63869 63869