“Hughes grapples with the most fundamental problems of the field... [He] does not skirt around difficult questions…making this book pertinent and long overdue reading for researchers, students and anyone interested in or associated with psychology’s journey to recovery.” Luke Gabriel Stewart, –International Journal of Educational Psychology
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
1. Psychology's replication crisis
2. Psychology's paradigmatic crisis
PART TWO: DESCRIPTION
3. Psychology's measurement crisis
4. Psychology's statistical crisis
5. Psychology's sampling crisis
6. Psychology's exaggeration crisis
PART THREE: ACTION
7. Psychology's intractability crisis: the crisis of being in crisis
8. Dealing with psychology's methodological crises
Brian Hughes is Professor of Psychology at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His research focuses on psychological stress and he writes widely on the psychology of empiricism and of empirically disputable claims, especially as they pertain to science, health, and medicine. He holds a Ph.D. from the National University of Ireland.
