Mentale Fakultäten, methodische Rituale und andere Stolpersteine [Mental faculties, methodological rituals, and other stumbling blocks] (1999)
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Abstract
Research consists of habits, both useful and bad ones. Some habits have developed into hindrances to progress in psychology. Among them are (1) psychologists' self-image as members of sub-groups defined by a mental faculty, such as thinking, emotion, or motivation, which isolates these sub-groups from one another; (2) a self-image as members of a profession that conducts research in a discipline-oriented rather than a problem-oriented way, at the price of ignoring relevant knowledge in other disciplines; (3) a professional self-definition by methodological rituals rather than by methodological thinking; (4) a tendency to satisfy oneself with substitute theories. By overcoming these four habits that cripple international psychology, psychology in the German-speaking countries might once again attain a leading role.
Bibliographic entry
Gigerenzer, G. (1999). Mentale Fakultäten, methodische Rituale und andere Stolpersteine [Mental faculties, methodological rituals, and other stumbling blocks]. Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 207, 287-297.
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| Publication year | 1999 | |
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| Document type: | Article | |
| Publication status: | Published | |
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| Categories: | Emotion | |
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