Author Archives: Kathleen Slaney

This book critically examines the historical and philosophical foundations of construct validity theory (CVT), and how these have and continue to inform and constrain the conceptualization of validity and its application in research. CVT has had an immense impact on how researchers in the behavioural sciences conceptualize and approach their subject matter. Yet, there isContinue reading “Validating psychological constructs: Historical, philosophical, and practical dimensions”

As he has been for many in his scholarly circles, Frank Richardson has been an invaluable resource to me in my recent and nascent explorations of the psychological lives of persons living in and through the communities of which they are a part. I’m deeply indebted to Frank for his willingness to help me workContinue reading “Love Thy Neighbour: Community Within a Wisdom of Limits”

The discipline of psychology is a stranger to neither crisis nor internal critique. Critical debates have concerned everything from its status as a science, its theoretical and philosophical foundations, to general and particular critiques of the methods and methodology which have been sanctioned and privileged within in. Yet, it appears that the key messages comingContinue reading “Is there a waning appetite for critical methodology in mainstream scientific psychology?”

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 asContinue reading “Problematic research practices and inertia in scientific psychology: History, sources, and recommended solutions”