The Unbuilt Bench: Experimental Psychology on the Verge of Science

by David Andrew Peterson

Book Overview

Psychological experts are omnipresent across public and private spheres. Nonetheless, psychology has always been dogged by questions about its authority and validity. Psychological research has yielded relatively few unambiguous successes, and the widely publicized "replication crisis" has called much of the published literature into question. How closely akin to other experimental sciences is psychology, and should its findings be assessed by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231217323
• ISBN13: 9780231217323
• Release Date: March 2025
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 328 Pages