"I would readily recommend this book to anyone interested in, and slightly familiar with, the field of psychology and who cares about its future and is interested in its recent influences. It would be time well spent." (the-mouse-trap.com, April 12, 2021) "I am very happy to recommend Shaping Psychology to readers of the Skeptical Intelligencer." (Michael Heap, The Skeptical Intelligencer, Vol. 23 (4), 2020)
1. Introduction.- 2. Elizabeth F. Loftus: Cognitive Psychology, Witness Testimony and Human Memory.- 3. Jerome Kagan: Temperament, Developmental Psychology and Methodology.- 4. Michael I. Posner: Cognitive Neuroscience, Attention Networks and Training the Brain.- 5. Scott O. Lilienfeld: Clinical Psychology, Evidence-Based Treatments and Skepticism.- 6. Robert J. Sternberg: Intelligence, Love, Creativity and Wisdom.- 7. Robert Plomin: Behavioral Genetics.- 8. Susan J. Blackmore: Parapsychology, Memetics and Consciousness.- 9. Joseph E. LeDoux: Fear, Anxiety, Emotions, Consciousness and Evolution.- 10. Noam Chomsky: Psycholinguistics.- 11. Roy F. Baumeister: Self-esteem, Self-control and the Power of Will.- 12. Erica Burman: Developmental Psychology, Feminist Research and Methodology.- 13. Brian A. Nosek: Open Science and Reproducibility Projects.- 14. Vikram H. Patel: Global Mental Health.- 15. Daniel Kahneman: Decision-making, Adversarial Collaboration and Hedonic Psychology.- 16. Carol A. Tavris: Cognitive Dissonance, Gender, Feminism, and Skepticism.
Tomasz Witkowski is a psychologist, science writer, skeptic and the author of several dozen science papers, several hundred popular science articles and fourteen books. Witkowski’s previous books include Psychology Gone Wrong and Psychology Led Astray.