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SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF PSYCHOLOGY - CHRIS CHAMBER...

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 increasingly
apparent that a lot of research in psychology is based on weak evidence  questionable practices
and sometimes even fraud. The Seven Deadly Sins of Psychology diagnoses the ills besetting the
discipline today and proposes sensible  practical solutions to ensure that it remains a
legitimate and reliable science in the years ahead. In this unflinchingly candid manifesto 
Chris Chambers draws on his own experiences as a working scientist to reveal a dark side to
psychology that few of us ever see. Using the seven deadly sins as a metaphor  he shows how
practitioners are vulnerable to powerful biases that undercut the scientific method  how they
routinely torture data until it produces outcomes that can be published in prestigious journals
and how studies are much less reliable than advertised. He reveals how a culture of secrecy
denies the public and other researchers access to the results of psychology experiments  how
fraudulent academics can operate with impunity  and how an obsession with bean counting creates
perverse incentives for academics. Left unchecked  these problems threaten the very future of
psychology as a science--but help is here.

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