在今天的大眾媒體和圖書市場(chǎng)上，到處充斥著關(guān)于潛能提升、心理操控、色彩星座、催眠讀心等偽裝成心理學(xué)的主題，更有一些偽心理學(xué)家、所謂的心理治療師打著心理學(xué)的旗號(hào)欺世盜名，從中漁利。在浩如煙海、良莠不齊的心理學(xué)信息面前，如何撥除迷霧，去偽存真，成為一個(gè)明智的心理學(xué)信息的消費(fèi)者？這本書將教給你科學(xué)實(shí)用的批判性思維技能，將真正的心理學(xué)研究從偽心理學(xué)中區(qū)分出來，告訴你什么才是真正的心理學(xué)。 《這才是心理學(xué)》首版于1983年，30多年來一直被奉為心理學(xué)入門經(jīng)典，在全球大學(xué)中享有盛譽(yù)，現(xiàn)在呈現(xiàn)在讀者面前的是英文第11版。這本書并不同于一般的心理學(xué)導(dǎo)論類教材，很多內(nèi)容是心理學(xué)課堂上不曾講授的，也是許多心理學(xué)教師在教學(xué)中感到只可意會(huì)而不可言傳的。作者正是從此初衷出發(fā)，以幽默生動(dòng)的語言，結(jié)合一些妙趣橫生、貼近生活的實(shí)例，深入淺出地介紹了可證偽性、操作主義、實(shí)證主義、安慰劑效應(yīng)、相關(guān)和因果、概率推理等心理學(xué)中的基本原則。與上一版相比，第11版更新了*的研究資料和實(shí)例以及290篇參考文獻(xiàn)。 本書不僅適合于心理學(xué)專業(yè)的學(xué)生，有助于建立心理學(xué)研究中必要的批判性思維技能與意識(shí)，而其通俗易讀性也非常適合所有對(duì)心理學(xué)感興趣的讀者，它將幫助你糾正對(duì)心理學(xué)的種種誤解，學(xué)會(huì)獨(dú)立地評(píng)估心理學(xué)信息，用科學(xué)的精神和方法理解自己和他人的行為。此外，由于心理學(xué)與其他學(xué)科的共通性，本書也不失為一本精彩有趣的科學(xué)哲學(xué)類讀物。

首版于1983年，30多年來一直被奉為心理學(xué)入門經(jīng)典，在全球*大學(xué)中享有盛譽(yù)，被全球500多所教育機(jī)構(gòu)采用；以幽默生動(dòng)的語言，結(jié)合一些妙趣橫生、貼近生活的實(shí)例，深入淺出地介紹了心理學(xué)中的批判性思維，告訴你什么才是真正的心理學(xué)，拒絕偽心理學(xué)；清華大學(xué)心理學(xué)系主任彭凱平教授作序推薦，北京大學(xué)心理學(xué)院魏坤琳（Dr. 魏）特別推薦，書單來了、科學(xué)松鼠會(huì)等知名媒體專文推薦！*第11版，增加全新的案例和290條參考文獻(xiàn)，英文原版，原汁原味呈現(xiàn)原著精華。

基思·斯坦諾維奇（Keith E. Stanovich），目前擔(dān)任加拿大多倫多大學(xué)人類發(fā)展與應(yīng)用心理學(xué)的國(guó)家首席教授，他的研究領(lǐng)域是推理和閱讀的心理學(xué)機(jī)制。他于2010年獲得格威爾美爾教育獎(jiǎng)（Grawemeyer Award in Education）。他至今已發(fā)表了200多篇科學(xué)論文。在一項(xiàng)對(duì)于論文引用率的調(diào)查中，斯坦諾維奇位列引用率最高的50位發(fā)展心理學(xué)家之一，也是25位最高產(chǎn)的教育心理學(xué)家之一。他所撰寫的《這才是心理學(xué)》（How to Think Straight about Psychology）一書被全球300多所心理學(xué)高等教育機(jī)構(gòu)采用。

refacexiv 1Psychology Is Alive and Well(and Doing Fine Among the Sciences)1 The Freud Problem 1 The Diversity of Modern Psychology 3 Implications of Diversity 4 Unity in Science 4 What, Then, Is Science? 6 Systematic Empiricism 7 Publicly Verifiable Knowledge: Replication and Peer Review8 Empirically Solvable Problems: Scientists Search for Testable Theories 10 Psychology and Folk Wisdom: The Problem with Common Sense 11 Psychology as a Young Science 15Summary 16
2 Falsifiability: How to Foil LittleGreen Men in the Head17 Theories and the Falsifiability Criterion 18 The Theory of Knocking Rhythms 19 Freud and Falsifiability 20 The Little Green Men 22 Not All Confirmations Are Equal 23 Falsifiability and Folk Wisdom 24 The Freedom to Admit a Mistake 25 Thoughts Are Cheap 27 Errors in Science: Getting Closer to the Truth 2 8Summary 30
3 Operationism and Essentialism:But, Doctor, What Does It Really Mean? 31 Why Scientists Are Not Essentialists 31 Essentialists Like to Argue About the Meaning of Words 32 Operationists Link Concepts to Observable Events 32 Reliability and Validity 34 Direct and Indirect Operational Definitions 37 Scientific Concepts Evolve 38 Operational Definitions in Psychology 40 Operationism as a Humanizing Force 42 Essentialist Questions and the Misunderstanding of Psychology 43 Summary 44
4 Testimonials and Case Study Evidence:Placebo Effects and the Amazing Randi 45 The Place of the Case Study 47 Why Testimonials Are Worthless: Placebo Effects 48 The Vividness Problem 51 The Overwhelming Impact of the Single Case 53 Why Vivid Anecdotes and Testimonials Are So Potent 54The Amazing Randi: Fighting Fire with Fire 55Testimonials Open the Door to Pseudoscience 57Summary 62
5 Correlation and Causation: BirthControl by the Toaster Method 63 The Third-Variable Problem 64 Why Goldbergers Evidence Was Better 65 The Directionality Problem 68Selection Bias 70Summary 72
6 Getting Things Under Control:The Case of Clever Hans 74Snow and Cholera 75 Comparison, Control, and Manipulation 76 Random Assignment in Conjunction with Manipulation Defines the True Experiment 77 The Importance of Control Groups 79 The Case of Clever Hans, the Wonder Horse 83 Clever Hans in the 1990s and in the Present Day 85 Prying Variables Apart: Special Conditions 88 Intuitive Physics 90 Intuitive Psychology 91Summary 93
7 But Its Not Real Life!:The Artificiality Criticism and Psychology94 Why Natural Isnt Always Necessary 94 The Random Sample Versus Random Assignment Confusion96 Theory-Driven Research Versus Direct Applications 97 Applications of Psychological Theory 99 The College Sophomore Problem 101 The Real-Life and College Sophomore Problems in Perspective 104 Summary 105
8 Avoiding the Einstein Syndrome:The Importance of Converging Evidence 106 The Connectivity Principle 107 A Consumers Rule: Beware of Violations of Connectivity 108 The Great-Leap Model Versus the Gradual-Synthesis Model 109 Converging Evidence: Progress Despite Flaws 110Types of Converging Evidence 113 Scientific Consensus 118 Methods and the Convergence Principle 118 The Progression to More Powerful Methods 119 A Counsel Against Despair 122 Summary 124 9 The Misguided Search for the Magic Bullet:The Issue of Multiple Causation 125 The Concept of Interaction 126 The Temptation of the Single-Cause Explanation 128Summary 131
10 The Achilles Heel of HumanCognition: Probabilistic Reasoning 132 Person-Who Statistics 135 Probabilistic Reasoning and the Misunderstanding of Psychology 136 Psychological Research on Probabilistic Reasoning 138 Insufficient Use of Probabilistic Information 139 Failure to Use Sample-Size Information 140 The Gamblers Fallacy 142 A Further Word About Statistics and Probability 144 Summary 146
11 The Role of Chance in Psychology 147 The Tendency to Try to Explain Chance Events 147 Explaining Chance: Illusory Correlation and the Illusion of Control 150 Chance and Psychology 151 Coincidence 151 Personal Coincidences 153 Accepting Error in Order to Reduce Error: Clinical Versus Actuarial Prediction 155 Summary 160
12 The Rodney Dangerfield of the Sciences 162 Psychologys Image Problem 163 Psychology and Parapsychology 163 The Self-Help Literature 165 Recipe Knowledge 166 Psychology and Other Disciplines 167 Our Own Worst Enemies 168 Our Own Worst Enemies, Part II: Psychology Has Become an Ideological Monoculture 172 Isnt Everyone a Psychologist? Implicit Theories of Behavior 178 The Source of Resistance to Scientific Psychology 179 The Final Word 182 References 183 Name Index 210 Subject Index 217