在今天的大眾媒體和圖書市場上,到處充斥著關于潛能提升、心理操控、色彩星座、催眠讀心等偽裝成心理學的主題,更有一些偽心理學家、所謂的心理治療師打著心理學的旗號欺世盜名,從中漁利。在浩如煙海、良莠不齊的心理學信息面前,如何撥除迷霧,去偽存真,成為一個明智的心理學信息的消費者?這本書將教給你科學實用的批判性思維技能,將真正的心理學研究從偽心理學中區分出來,告訴你什么才是真正的心理學。
《這才是心理學》第1版出版于1983年,30多年來一直被奉為心理學入門經典,在全球大學中享有盛譽,現在呈現在讀者面前的是英文第10版。這本書并不同于一般的心理學導論類教材,很多內容是心理學課堂上不曾講授的,也是許多心理學教師在教學中感到只可意會而不可言傳的。作者正是從此初衷出發,以幽默生動的語言,結合一些妙趣橫生、貼近生活的實例,深入淺出地介紹了可證偽性、操作主義、實證主義、安慰劑效應、相關和因果、概率推理等心理學中的基本原則。與上一版相比,第10版更新了的研究資料和實例以及172篇參考文獻。
本書不僅適合于心理學專業的學生,有助于建立心理學研究中必要的批判性思維技能與意識,而其通俗易讀性也非常適合所有對心理學感興趣的讀者,它將幫助你糾正對心理學的種種誤解,學會獨立地評估心理學信息,用科學的精神和方法理解自己和他人的行為。此外,由于心理學與其他學科的共通性,本書也不失為一本精彩有趣的科學哲學類讀物。
撥除迷霧,去偽存真,教你如何使用批判性思維,在“偽心理學”橫行的時代分辨出什么才是真正的心理學;
清華大學心理學系系主任彭凱平教授特別推薦給普通讀者的心理學入門讀物;
科學松鼠會推薦的心理學必讀書籍;
全球300多所心理學院校采用的心理學入門教材;
第10版,英文原版,原汁原味。
基思 斯坦諾維奇(Keith E. Stanovich),目前擔任加拿大多倫多大學人類發展與應用心理學的國家首席教授,他的研究領域是推理和閱讀的心理學機制。他于2010年獲得格威爾美爾教育獎(Grawemeyer Award in Education)。他至今已發表了200多篇科學論文。在一項對于論文引用率的調查中,斯坦諾維奇位列引用率較高的50位發展心理學家之一,也是25位較高產的教育心理學家之一。他所撰寫的《這才是心理學》(How to Think Straight about Psychology)一書被全球300多所心理學高等教育機構采用。
Preface xi
1 Psychology Is Alive and Well (and Doing Fine Among the Sciences) 1
The Freud Problem 1
The Diversity of Modern Psychology 3
Implications of Diversity 4
Unity in Science 6
What, Then, Is Science? 8
Systematic Empiricism 9
Publicly Verifiable Knowledge: Replication and Peer Review 10
Empirically Solvable Problems: Scientists’ Search for Testable Theories 12
Psychology and Folk Wisdom: The Problem with “Common Sense” 13
Psychology as a Young Science 17
Summary 18
2 Falsifiability: How to Foil Little Green Men in the Head 21
Theories and the Falsifiability Criterion 22
The Theory of Knocking Rhythms 23
Freud and Falsifiability 24
The Little Green Men 26
Not All Confirmations Are Equal 28
Falsifiability and Folk Wisdom 29
The Freedom to Admit a Mistake 29
Thoughts Are Cheap 32
Errors in Science: Getting Closer to the Truth 33
Summary 36
3 Operationism and Essentialism: “But, Doctor,What Does It Really Mean?” 37
Why Scientists Are Not Essentialists 37
Essentialists Like to Argue About the Meaning of Words 38
Operationists Link Concepts to Observable Events 39
Reliability and Validity 40
Direct and Indirect Operational Definitions 42
Scientific Concepts Evolve 43
Operational Definitions in Psychology 45
Operationism as a Humanizing Force 47
Essentialist Questions and the Misunderstanding of Psychology 49
Summary 51
4 Testimonials and Case Study Evidence: Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi 53
The Place of the Case Study 54
Why Testimonials Are Worthless: Placebo Effects 56
The “Vividness” Problem 59
The Overwhelming Impact of the Single Case 62
The Amazing Randi: Fighting Fire with Fire 64
Testimonials Open the Door to Pseudoscience 65
Summary 71
5 Correlation and Causation: Birth Control
by the Toaster Method 73
The Third-Variable Problem: Goldberger and Pellagra 74
Why Goldberger’s Evidence Was Better 75
The Directionality Problem 78
Selection Bias 79
Summary 83
6 Getting Things Under Control: The Case of Clever Hans 85
Snow and Cholera 86
Comparison, Control, and Manipulation 87
Random Assignment in Conjunction with Manipulation
Defines the True Experiment 88
The Importance of Control Groups 90
The Case of Clever Hans, the Wonder Horse 95
Clever Hans in the 1990s 97
Prying Variables Apart: Special Conditions 100
Intuitive Physics 102
Intuitive Psychology 103
Summary 106
7 “But It’s Not Real Life!”: The “Artificiality” Criticism and Psychology 107
Why Natural Isn’t Always Necessary 107
The “Random Sample” Confusion 108
The Random Assignment Versus Random Sample Distinction 109
Theory-Driven Research Versus Direct Applications 110
Applications of Psychological Theory 115
The “College Sophomore” Problem 117
The Real-Life and College Sophomore Problems in Perspective 120
Summary 121
8 Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome: The Importance of Converging Evidence 123
The Connectivity Principle 124
A Consumer’s Rule: Beware of Violations of Connectivity 125
The “Great-Leap” Model Versus the Gradual-Synthesis Model 126
Converging Evidence: Progress Despite Flaws 128
Converging Evidence in Psychology 130
Scientific Consensus 134
Methods and the Convergence Principle 136
The Progression to More Powerful Methods 137
A Counsel Against Despair 139
Summary 142
9 The Misguided Search for the “Magic Bullet”: The Issue of Multiple Causation 143
The Concept of Interaction 144
The Temptation of the Single-Cause Explanation 147
Summary 150
10 The Achilles’ Heel of Human Cognition:
Probabilistic Reasoning 151
“Person-Who” Statistics 153
Probabilistic Reasoning and the Misunderstanding
of Psychology 154
Psychological Research on Probabilistic Reasoning 156
Insufficient Use of Probabilistic Information 157
Failure to Use Sample-Size Information 159
The Gambler’s Fallacy 161
A Further Word About Statistics and Probability 163
Summary 165
11 The Role of Chance in Psychology 167
The Tendency to Try to Explain Chance Events 167
Explaining Chance: Illusory Correlation and the Illusion of Control 170
Chance and Psychology 172
Coincidence 172
Personal Coincidences 175
Accepting Error in Order to Reduce Error: Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction 176
Summary 183
12 The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences 185
Psychology’s Image Problem 185
Psychology and Parapsychology 186
The Self-Help Literature 188
Recipe Knowledge 190
Psychology and Other Disciplines 192
Our Own Worst Enemies 193
Isn’t Everyone a Psychologist? Implicit Theories of Behavior 199
The Source of Resistance to Scientific Psychology 200
The Final Word 205
References 207
Credits 229
Name Index 230
Subject Index 237
這本“與眾不同的心理學”教科書,總結了心理學家的職業特質,讓每一位讀者都有機會去理解我們心理學家是如何去思考、分析和解讀人類的行為和心理的。每一章都將一個常識的、樸素的、直覺的有關人類心理的分析和思考與一個科學的、嚴謹的、心理學的分析和思考相對比,以幫助讀者理解心理學家的分析邏輯和研究思路。
彭凱平教授 清華大學心理學系系主任
美國加州大學伯克利分校心理學系終身教授
這本書在第1版時,我已經開始把它推薦給我的學生,那是三十多年前的事了?,F在它已經出到第10版了,可見它深受幾代老師及學生的喜愛。這本書之所以能如此有生命力,我想主要是因為作者能把一個非??菰锛皣烂C的題材講得那么生動易懂,引起老師和學生們在課堂上熱烈的討論及哈哈的笑聲。閱讀本書,可以讓人們認識到及分辨出什么樣的研究及數據才是真正科學的及可信的。為此,我不單只把它推薦給大專院校心理學系的學生作為研究方法課的教材,也強烈推薦給一般讀者。
楊中芳教授
中國社會科學院社會學研究所社會心理研究中心客座研究員
心理學本身已經離弗洛伊德那個年代很遠很遠了。如果你是一個心理學愛好者,或者心理學初學者,又或者是高考填志愿想選擇心理學為專業的學生,都強烈建議你們看一下這本書,這也許與你想象中的心理學有巨大的差別,但是這才是目前心理學發展的真正方向!
讀者
是英文版,我的英文不好,喜歡心理學,就一同來研究學習。印刷及紙質、包裝都很好。
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