This volume explores the abiding intellectual inertia in scientific psychology in relation to the discipline’s 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 calming status as a science.
Link: https://www.routledge.com/Problematic-Research-Practices-and-Inertia-in-Scientific-Psychology-History/Lamiell-Slaney/p/book/9780367644864
Citation: Lamiell, J., & Slaney, K. L. (Eds) (2021). Problematic research practices and inertia in scientific psychology: History, sources, and recommended solutions. New York, NY: Routledge.
Published by Kathleen Slaney
I am a Professor of Psychology at Simon Fraser University, located in British Columbia, Canada. My research interests and expertise fall, broadly, in the philosophy of psychological science, analysis and critique of empirical methodologies, study of scientific practices in psychology, history/philosophy of psychological measurement, theoretical and applied psychometrics. More recently I've turned my attention to thinking and writing about to a more general set of meta-science issues, including philosophical reflexivity, generalizability, and rhetoric in science discourse. I am also just beginning a new line of research into the topic of community and civic virtue.
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