Preface
1 Psychology Is Alive and Well(and Doing Fine Among the Sciences) 1
2 Falsifiability: How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head 19
3 Operationism and Essentialism: “But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean?” 35
4 Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi 53
5 Correlation and Causation: Birth Control by the Toaster Method 73
6 Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans 85
7 “But It’s Not Real Life!”: The “Artificiality” Criticism and Psychology 103
8 Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence 119
9 The Misguided Search for the “Magic Bullet”: The Issue of Multiple Causation 141
10 The Achilles’ Heel of Human Cognition: Probabilistic Reasoning 149
11 The Role of Chance in Psychology 165
12 The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences 183
References 205
Author Index 231
Subject Index 238
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