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Shaping Psychology

Perspectives on Legacy, Controversy and the Future of the Field

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Tomasz Witkowski

    1. Wroclaw, Poland

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  • Presents the perspectives of leading authorities on the nature, possibilities, and limitations of psychological science

  • Provides an understanding of the contributions of each of the persons interviewed to their respective specialism

  • Offers an overview of the psychologists and the discipline as they are found in the early 21st century

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Tomasz Witkowski
    Pages 1-10

  8. Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics

    • Tomasz Witkowski
    Pages 101-124

  11. Noam Chomsky: Psycholinguistics

    • Tomasz Witkowski
    Pages 169-182

  15. Vikram H. Patel: Global Mental Health

    • Tomasz Witkowski
    Pages 267-288

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 323-331
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About this book

Shaping Psychology is a unique collection of in-depth conversations with a selection of the most influential psychologists working today, conducted at the end of a decade that shook psychological science. They provide insights into the controversies at the heart of contemporary psychology, revealing a clash of visions of what psychological science is all about and what its future holds. They are candid on the crisis in psychology and explore its causes, consequences and how to overcome it. They also discuss challenges in the field, their careers, and the experiences that shaped their worldview.


Those interviewed include pioneers who have shaped psychology as we know it today and who represent a wide range of specializations, from research to mental health practice, mainstream psychology to critical psychology and neuroscience to the Open Science movement. 


Elizabeth F. Loftus, Stanford University, USA

Jerome Kagan, Harvard University, USA

Michael I. Posner, University of Oregon, USA

Scott O. Lilienfeld, Emory University, USA

Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, USA

Robert Plomin, King’s College London, UK 

Susan J. Blackmore, University of Plymouth, UK

Joseph E. LeDoux, New York University, USA

Noam Chomsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Roy F. Baumeister, University of Queensland, Australia

Erica Burman, University of Manchester, UK

Brian A. Nosek, University of Virginia, USA

Vikram H. Patel, Harvard Medical School, USA

Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University, USA

Carol A. Tavris, independent academic, USA,




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Keywords

  • Popular Science
  • Psychologists
  • Social psychology
  • General Psychology
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • social science methodology
  • theory of psychology
  • history of psychology
  • Open Science
  • replication crisis
  • Creativity
  • Skepticism
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Reviews

“I would readily recommend this book to anyone interested in, and slightly familiar with, the field of psychology and who cares about its future and is interested in its recent influences. It would be time well spent.” (the-mouse-trap.com, April 12, 2021)

“I am very happy to recommend Shaping Psychology to readers of the Skeptical Intelligencer.” (Michael Heap, The Skeptical Intelligencer, Vol. 23 (4), 2020)
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Wroclaw, Poland

    Tomasz Witkowski

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About the author

Tomasz Witkowski is a psychologist, science writer, skeptic and the author of several dozen science papers, several hundred popular science articles and fourteen books. Witkowski’s previous books include Psychology Gone Wrong and Psychology Led Astray.
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