Velden Psychology – a Study of a Masquerade

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-86234-779-7
Verlag: V&R unipress
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 169 Seiten

Since its inception as a field of science in the 19th century, psychology as it is now offered at universities has made great efforts to become a quantitative discipline on par with the natural sciences. Using a variety of different examples, Manfred Velden shows that this is all just a charade where scientific methods are employed without delivering any correspondingly reliable results. The impact of this kind of science has sometimes been downright disastrous; for example, in connection with immigration, forced sterilization, university admissions or the debate on racial differences.

Prof. Dr. Manfred Velden studierte Psychologie an den Universitäten Bonn und Berkley (University of California). Als Professor an den Universitäten Mainz, Berlin (TU) und Osnabrück vertrat er die Fächer Wahrnehmungspsychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychosomatik.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Velden, Manfred

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Title Page;4
2;Copyright;5
3;Table of Contents;6
4;Body;8
5;Preface;8
6;Introduction;10
7;Psychology – a field of its own;14
8;The origin of psychology as a science of its own;18
9;Koch's view of psychology as an “institutionalized delusion”;28
10;The masquerade;36
10.1;Psychological laws: A lesson in elusiveness;36
10.2;Measuring the undefinable and predicting the unpredictable;59
10.3;Significance without relevance;64
10.4;Methods and problems running past each other awry;79
10.5;Experimenting on the intangible;83
10.6;The biology of the mind: An ideology;103
10.6.1;Evolutionary psychology: Darwin used, but not read;103
10.6.2;Behavioral genetics: The genes that refuse to show up;111
10.6.3;Neuropsychology – much neuro without neurons;116
10.7;Psychophysiology – the crudest access to the mind;121
10.8;Type A behavior – marching beyond pathophysiology and into the etiological nirvana;129
10.9;Intelligence – a concept flagrantly oversold;134
10.10;Scientific racism – a matter of scientific standards;142
11;How can that be?;146
12;Applied vs. “fundamental” psychology;150
13;The future;156
14;Literature;160
15;Index;168

Über Autor(innen)

Velden, Manfred
Prof. Dr. Manfred Velden studierte Psychologie an den Universitäten Bonn und Berkley (University of California). Als Professor an den Universitäten Mainz, Berlin (TU) und Osnabrück vertrat er die Fächer Wahrnehmungspsychologie, Biologische Psychologie und Psychosomatik.