Psychology Exposed: Or the Emperor's New Clothes (Psychology Revivals) - Softcover

Kline, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138905151 ISBN 13: 9781138905153

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

Originally published in 1988, in this personal review of the state of academic psychology, Paul Kline draws attention to the way in which his peers at the time studiously avoided such threatening matters as human feelings and emotions, unconscious ‘complexes’ – in short anything that could be called the human psyche. His erudite, amusing, and provocative text outlines the crucial influence of the development of scientific method before examining key experiments within cognitive psychology and cognitive science, psychometrics, social psychology, and animal behaviour. Is most of experimental psychology trivial, redundant, and irrelevant? The academic subject cannot continue to ignore its critics, he argued, and must solve its problems by means of radical solutions. Whether they support or refute Professor Kline’s arguments, students and professionals alike will still enjoy this original book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1138905151
• ISBN 13: 9781138905153
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174