creators_name: Lykken, David T. editors_name: Chiccetti, D. editors_name: Grove, W. type: bookchapter datestamp: 1998-12-14 lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51 metadata_visibility: show title: What's wrong with Psychology, anyway? ispublished: pub subjects: phil-mind subjects: phil-sci full_text_status: public keywords: Philosophy of Psychology, significance testing, types ofreplication, null hypothesis abstract: This chapter considers various factors that have been responsible for the comparatively slow development of psychology into a cumulative empirical science. Special attention is devoted to correctable methodological mistakes, the over-reliance upon significance testing (and the fact that, in psychology, the null hypothesis is almost always false), and an analysis of the concept of replication. date: 1991 date_type: published publication: Thinking Clearly About Psychology, Vol. 1 publisher: University of Minnesota Press pagerange: 3-39 refereed: FALSE citation: Lykken, David T. (1991) What's wrong with Psychology, anyway? [Book Chapter] document_url: http://cogprints.org/371/3/148.pdf