Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Finding the Place of Experimental Psychology: Introduction
  • Chapter 2. From Introspection to Experiment: Wundt and Avenarius’ Debate on the Definition of Psychology
  • Chapter 3. Truth and Mind: How Embodied Concepts Constrain How We Define Truth in Psychological Science
  • Chapter 4. Operationalization and Generalization in Experimental Psychology: A Plea for Bold Claims
  • Chapter 5. The Role of Social Context in Experimental Studies on Dishonesty
  • Chapter 6. What is a task and how do you know if you have one or more?
  • Chapter 7. The Problem of Interpretation in Experimental Research
  • Chapter 8. Methodology of science: Different kinds of questions require different methods
  • Chapter 9. Conclusion: From experimental to experiential psychology; a small step for a discipline, a huge challenge for a science.