Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences

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Investigating the Psychological World Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology Kim Sterelny and Robert A. Wilson, Series Editors Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences , Brian D. Haig, 2014 Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, revised edition, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, 2014 Cooperation and Its Evolution, Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, and Ben Fraser, editors, 2013 Ingenious Genes: How Gene Regulation Networks Evolve to Control Development , Roger Sansom, 2011 Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust, Daniel Kelly, 2011 Laws, Mind, and Free Will, Steven Horst, 2011 Perplexities of Consciousness, Eric Schwitzgebel, 2011 Humanity’s End: Why We Should Reject Radical Enhancement, Nicholas Agar, 2010 Color Ontology and Color Science, Jonathan Cohen and Mohan Matthen, editors , 2010 The Extended Mind, Richard Menary, editor, 2010 The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin, 2008 Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic, Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel, 2007 Evolutionary Psychology as Maladapted Psychology, Robert C. Richardson, 2007 The Evolution of Morality, Richard Joyce, 2006 Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life, Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb, 2005 Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology, Sahotra Sarkar, 2005 The Mind Incarnate, Lawrence A. Shapiro, 2004 Organisms and Artifacts: Design in Nature and Elsewhere, Tim Lewens, 2004 Seeing and Visualizing: It’s Not What You Think, Zenon W. Pylyshyn, 2003 Evolution and Learning: The Baldwin Effect Reconsidered, Bruce H. Weber and David J. Depew, editors, 2003 The New Phrenology: The Limits of Localizing Cognitive Processes in the Brain, William R. Uttal, 2001 Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution, Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. Gray, editors, 2001 Coherence in Thought and Action, Paul Thagard, 2000 Investigating the Psychological World Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences Brian D. Haig A Bradford Book The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval ) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email special_sales@mitpress.mit.edu. This book was set in Sabon LT Std by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited, Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Haig, Brian D., 1945–. Investigating the psychological world : scientific method in the behavioral sciences / Brian D. Haig. pages cm.—(Life and mind : philosophical issues in biology and psychology) (A Bradford book) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-02736-6 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Psychology—Research—Methodology. I. Title. BF76.5.H335 2014 150.72'1—dc23 2013032413 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The attempt to understand and improve methods, and to do so via theorizing them, is at the center of an intelligently evolving cognition. —Clifford Hooker (1987, 291) Above all, if a raised standard of education in methods is to be achieved, it is necessary to engender, beyond any knowledge of particular skills and formulae as such, a perspective as to what methods are most appropriate to various areas and occasions. —Raymond Cattell (1966, 5) ...