Data indicate that large percentages of the general public regard psychology's scientific
status with considerable skepticism. I examine 6 criticisms commonly directed at the …

In a recent seminal article, Lilienfeld (2012) argued that psychological science is
experiencing a public perception problem that has been caused by both public …

Part of the “boundary work”(Gieryn, 1983) throughout the history of psychology has been to
divide the discipline into camps of “basic” and “applied” researchers who take different …

Three mostly positive developments in academic psychology—the cognitive revolution, the
virtual requirement for multiple study reports in our top journals, and the prioritization of …

▪ Abstract The latter half of this century has seen an erosion in the perceived legitimacy of
science as an impartial means of finding truth. Many research topics are the subject of highly …

Responds to the comments of LoSchiavo FM and Shatz MA (see record 2009-13007-013);
Webster GD, Nichols AL, and Schember TO (see record 2009-13007-014); Stroebe W. and …

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Many people have worried that research studies are not repeated or replicated to ensure the
results are real. But in most research areas meta-analyses combining across numerous …

Psychological science has made extraordinary discoveries about the human mind, but can
we trust everything its practitioners are telling us? In recent years, it has become …

This article reexamines a number of methodological and procedural issues raised by Meehl
(1967, 1978) that seem to question the rationality of psychological inquiry. The first issue …