Rating Scales and Checklists: Evaluating Behavior, Personality, and Attitudes

by Lewis R. Aiken

Book Overview

"The philosopher Immanuel Kant believed that psychology could never become a science, because science is concerned with objectively observable phenomena and psychology deals with subjective matters. It is often maintained that the research of Gustav Fechner, Francis Galton, and other pioneers in psychometrics refuted Kant's assertion--and so it may be. However, it would be foolish to claim that psychologists are 'out of the woods' in maintaining that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471127876
• ISBN13: 9780471127871
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"