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The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology (Hardcover)
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The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology (Hardcover)
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In The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology Eysenck takes the
position that social science has real substance, and its findings
ought to be applicable to social problems of our times. Although
there is little that scientists can do about war and its
prevention, or about social unrest and upheaval, or about strikes
and other confrontations, there are a number of questions to which
we can give tentative answers. This book deals with some of these
questions, and finds some of the answers. Eysenck begins with a
look at a paradox of modern psychology. Experimental psychologists
use strictly scientific methods to investigate what to many people
seem trivial and sterile problems, yet some social psychologists,
psychiatrists and psychoanalysts investigate what are clearly
important and socially relevant problems, but use methods and
theories whose scientific rigor is doubtful at best. This paradox
is artificial and unnecessary. Methods of investigation and
theories and concepts enable us to combine worthwhile problems and
rigorous methods. The book takes a long look at a particular
problem which Eysenck investigated in depth during his illustrious
lifetime. This tour de force, by one of the magisterial figures of
modern psychology, is written for people as well as about people.
It is not a rehash of the voluminous writings of lawyers, poets,
politicians, dramatists, historians, psychiatrists and others who
have felt compelled to write about these psychological matters
without even a smattering of psychological knowledge. It is,
instead, based on empirical investigations that are too often
declared to be nonexistent by publicists and politicos.
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