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Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology) by Haig, Brian D. is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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A broad theory of research methodology for psychology and the behavioral sciences that offers a coherent treatment of a range of behavioral research methods. This book considers scientific method in the behavioral sciences, with particular reference to psychology. Psychologists learn about research methods and use them to conduct their research, but their training teaches them little about the nature of scientific method itself. In Investigating the Psychological World , Brian Haig fills this gap. Drawing on behavioral science methodology, the philosophy of science, and statistical theory, Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method that has particular relevance for the behavioral sciences. He terms this account of method the abductive theory of method (ATOM) in recognition of the importance it assigns to explanatory reasoning. ATOM offers the framework for a coherent treatment of a range of quantitative and qualitative behavioral research methods, giving equal treatment to data-analytic methods and methods of theory construction. Haig draws on the new experimentalism in the philosophy of science to reconstruct the process of phenomena detection as it applies to psychol
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- Author
- Haig, Brian D.
- Publisher
- A Bradford Book, The MIT Press
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262027366
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Psychology, Social Science, Social Sciences
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (7 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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