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Author Brannigan, Augustine, 1949-

Title The rise and fall of social psychology : the use and misuse of the experimental method / Augustine Brannigan
Published Hawthorne, N.Y. : Aldine de Gruyter, [2004]
©2004

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Description xiii, 192 pages ; 24 cm
Series Social problems and social issues
Social problems and social issues.
Contents Preface : why social psychology fails -- 1. The sunset of a golden age : reflections on the gap between promise and practice -- 2. Crisis and controversy in experimental social psychology : four hypotheses -- 3. Experiments as theatre : the art of scientific demonstration -- 4. Social psychology engineers wealth and intelligence : the Hawthorne and Pygmalion effects -- 5. A guide to the myth of media effects -- 6. Gender and psychology : from feminism to Darwinism -- 7. The end of experimental social psychology -- Epilogue : looking forward
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Social psychology -- Methodology.
Social psychology -- History.
LC no. 2003027326
ISBN 0202307425 cloth alkaline paper
0202307433 paperback alkaline paper