The Use and Misuse of the Experimental Method in Social Psychology : A Critical Examination of Classical Research / Augustine Brannigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brannigan, Augustine, 1949- author.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social psychology--Methodology.

Social psychology.

Social psychology--History.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abdingdon : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Augustine Brannigan is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Calgary, Canada. In his career as a professor in the Department of Sociology he taught social psychology, social theory, criminology, and criminal justice.

Notes:

Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Sunset on a Golden Age: Reflections on the Gap between Promise and Practice 2. Crisis and Controversy in Classical Social Psychology 3. Experiments as Theater: The Art of Scientific Demonstration in Sherif and Asch 4. Scientific Demonstration in Milgram, Zimbardo, and Rosenhan: More Evidence from the Archives 5. Bystander Research: Plumbing the Psyche of the indifferent Samaritan 6. Social Psychology Engineers Wealth and Intelligence: The Hawthorne and Pygmalion Effects 7. A Guide to the Myth of Media Effects 8. Gender and Psychology: From Feminism to Darwinism 9. The Failures of Experimental Social Psychology in the Classical Period 10. The Replication Crisis: Social Psychology in the Age of Retraction. Epilogue: Looking Forward: Scientific Life After Experiments References Index.

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ISBN:

1000209458

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1003034802

9781000209440

100020944X

9781000209433

1000209431

9781000209457

Publisher Number:

40030252718

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