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Direct linkLilienfeld, Scott O. – American Psychologist, 2012
Responds to the comments made by Newman et al., Tryon, and Teo on the current author's original article. In the original article on public skepticism toward psychology, the author delineated eight reasons why many laypersons are dubious of our field's scientific status. The author argued that although some of these sources (e.g., hindsight bias,…
Descriptors: Evidence, Psychology, Reputation, Public Opinion
Teo, Thomas – American Psychologist, 2012
According to the philosophers of science Hempel and Oppenheim (1948), who were cited appropriately by Lilienfeld (see record 2011-12007-001) in his article, scientific explanations serve to answer "why" questions. Clarifying the logic of explanations in the sciences, they developed famously the notion that phenomena can be explained (using…
Descriptors: Psychology, Scientific Principles, Scientific Methodology, Criticism
Stuart, Richard B.; Lilienfeld, Scott O. – American Psychologist, 2007
Comments on the report by the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice (see record 2006-05893-001) entitled Evidence-based practice in psychology. Regrettably, the task force report was largely silent on three critical issues. As a consequence, it omitted much of the evidence necessary for a complete picture of evidence-based…
Descriptors: Psychologists, Evidence, Inferences, Theory Practice Relationship
Wampold, Bruce E.; Goodheart, Carol D.; Levant, Ronald F. – American Psychologist, 2007
Responds to comments by D. C. Wendt and B. D. Slife (see record 2007-13085-019), P. H. Hunsberger (see record 2007-13085-020), and R. B. Stuart and S. O. Lilienfeld (see record 2007-13085-021) regarding the report by the APA Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice (see record 2006-05893-001) entitled Evidence-based practice in…
Descriptors: Investigations, Theory Practice Relationship, Psychology, Evidence
