Psychology’s Misuse of Statistics and Persistent Dismissal of its Critics

James T. Lamiell is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Georgetown University, USA after having spent thirty-six years on the faculty at that institution. He holds the 2001 Bunn Award for Faculty Excellence at Georgetown, and is a three-time Fulbright scholar to Germany. He has authored four books and translated a fifth.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Mainstream Psychology’s Worrisome Incorrigibility.- Chapter 2: Challenging the Canon: The Critique and its Aftermath in Autobiographical Perspective.- Chapter 3: The Entrenchment of Statistical Thinking in Early Twentieth Century.- Differential Psychology.- Chapter 4: The Failure of Critical Thinking in the Statistization of Experimental Psychology.- Chapter 5: Statistical Thinking in Psychology: Some Needed Critical Perspective on What ‘Everyone Knows’.- Chapter 6: ‘Statisticism’ in Psychology as a Socio-Ethical Problem.- Chapter 7: In Quest of Meaningful Change.