Matters of public interest
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Matters of public interest
（Thinking clearly about psychology : essays in honor of Paul E. Meehl / edited by Dante Cicchetti and William M. Grove, v. 1）
University of Minnesota Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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This is the first volume of a two-volume compendium which presents the contributions of some of the most influential theorists and researchers in clinical psychology and relevant disciplines. Topics in this volume address the state of psychology, the philosophy of psychology and clinical versus statistical prediction. The essays are also designed to provide a forum for discussion of the work of Paul Meehl, one of the most influential clinical psychologists of the 20th century.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The state of psychology: what's wrong with psychology anyway?, David T.Lykken
- psychology as an historical science - efforts to disentangle science B from science A, W.Grant Dahlstrom
- some myths of science in psychology, Leonard G.Rorer. Part 2 Philosophy: God and atoms - comments of the problem of reality, Paul Feyerabend
- of clouds and clocks - an approach to the problem of rationality and the freedom of man, Karl Raimund Popper
- the placebo concept in medicine and psychiatry, Adolf Grunbaum. Part 3 Clinical versus regression equation: five contrasts, Lewis R.Goldberg
- what if we had listened? present reflections on altered pasts, David Faust
- why clinicians still use their heads instead of the formula, Benjamin Kleinmuntz
- probabilistic versus causal thinking, Robyn M.Dawes.
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