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