Values in Psychological Science
Re-imagining Epistemic Priorities at a New Frontier

Examines the role of values in psychology and urges new directions of impact through interdisciplinary collaboration to face global issues.

Lisa Osbeck (Author)

9781316500972, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 29 August 2019

157 pages
22.9 x 15 x 0.9 cm, 0.25 kg

'Osbeck's effort to highlight the researcher as person is long overdue. In framing research as a human endeavor - one that inevitably incorporates human strengths and foibles - she humanizes the process while remaining appreciative of the research enterprise and the benefits people reap from it.' Jonathan D. Raskin, State University of New York, New Paltz

In this book, wide-ranging sources are utilized to seek alternatives to the science-value dichotomy and to move beyond unhelpful impasses between qualitative and quantitative methods. It urges new directions of impact for psychology through intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration in order to confront unprecedented global challenges, generate questions and articulate new possibilities for a sustainable future for humanity. The analysis places the researcher as the principal instrument of any science - an affordance and an ongoing form of demand. Foregrounding 'the personal' also emphasizes continuity across arts and sciences; the interfaces of which contain the full range of resources for innovative thinking. The enduring relevance of observation, imaginative sense-making, and perspective-taking to psychology are explored. In emphasizing that 'the person' and 'the personal' reflect interconnected systems of various levels, the book calls for an appreciation and cultivation of these activities in the psychological scientific community.

Introduction
1. Science, values, and persons
2. Observing
3. Imaginative sense-making
4. Perspective-taking
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: History of medicine [MBX], Psychology [JM], History [HB]