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Title: What's Behind the Research?: Discovering Hidden Assumptions in the Behavioral Sciences by Brent D. Slife, Richard N. Williams ISBN: 0-8039-5863-3 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $38.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A Consumers Guide to the Behavioral Sciences
Comment: This book is about the philosophy of the behavioral sciences. However, as the title indicates it is written as a sort of "Consumer guide". There are presentations and discussions of psychodynamic theory, behaviorist theory, humanist theory, cognitive theory, eclecticism, structuralism and postmodernism. There are also chapters on epistemology, determinism, reductionism and the nature of science. Taken as a consumer guide, I found the book useful. Especially, I found the discussion about eclecticism (and its hidden assumptions)and about the problems of being too applied useful. The book is not only relevant for psychology, but for many areas in the social sciences. I have used some of the arguments in this book about library and information studies (se my article "Library and information science: practice, theory, and philosophical basis" in the journal Information Processing and Management, vol. 36(3), 2000, pp. 501-531).

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