The Unbuilt Bench by David Andrew Peterson - 9780231217316

The Unbuilt BenchExperimental Psychology on the Verge of Science\nAuthor(s): David Andrew Peterson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231217316, 978-0231217316\nSynopsis\nPsychological experts are omnipresent across public and private spheres. Nonetheless, psychology has always been dogged by questions about its authority and validity. Psychological research has yielded relatively few unambiguous successes, and the widely publicized replication crisis has called much of the published literature into question. How closely akin to other experimental sciences is psychology, and should its findings be assessed by the same standards? What makes psychology distinct, and how do such differences affect understandings of the boundaries of science?\n\nIn The Unbuilt Bench, David Peterson argues that the scientific study of the mind and human behavior is a different sort of epistemic activity than the work of .