Bibliography

Academic Areas & Topics in Psychology

Behavior Genetics, Eugenics, & Scientific Racism

• Chase, A. (1980). The legacy of Malthus: The social costs of the new scientific racism. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
• Galton, F. (1865). Hereditary talent and character. Macmillan's Magazine, 12, 157-166, 318-327.
• Goddard, H. H. (1912). The Kallikak family: A study in the heredity of feeble-mindedness. New York: Macmillan Company.
• Kevles, D. J. (1985). In the name of eugenics: Genetics and the uses of human heredity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
• Lewontin, R. C. (1991). Biology as ideology: The doctrine of DNA. New York: HarperPerennial.

Brain & Mind

• Della Sala, S. (Ed.) (1999). Mind myths: Exploring popular assumptions about the mind and brain. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
• Franz, Shepherd Ivory. (1912). New phrenology. Science, N.S. 35 (No. 896), 321-328.

Comparative Psychology

• Breland, K., & Breland, M. (1961). The misbehavior of organisms. American Psychologist, 16, 681-684.
• Breland, K., & Breland, M. (1966). Animal behavior. New York: Macmillan Company.

Critical & Skeptical Thinking About Psychology

• Marton, J. (2004). Fables for developing skeptical and critical thinking in psychology. Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing.
• McBurney, D. (1996). How to think like a psychologist. Prentice-Hall.
• Ruscio, J. (2006). Clear thinking with psychology: Separating sense from nonsense (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth.
• Smith, R. A. (2002). Challenging your preconceptions: Thinking critically about psychology (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
• Stanovich, K. E. (2004). How to think straight about psychology (7th ed.). Boston: Pearson.
• Tavris, C. (2000). Psychobabble and biobunk: Using psychology to think critically about issues in the news (2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Evolutionary Psychology & Sociobiology

• Buller, D. J. (2005a). Adapting minds: Evolutionary psychology and the persistent quest for human nature. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Buller, D. J. (2005b). Sex, jealousy & violence: A skeptical look at evolutionary psychology. Skeptic, 12(1), 46-57.
• Caplan, A. L. (Ed.) (1978). The sociobiology debate: Readings on the ethical and scientific issues concerning sociobiology. New York: Harper & Row.
• Degler, C. N. (1991). In search of human nature: The decline and revival of Darwinism in American social thought. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Gould, S. J. (1981). The mismeasure of man. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Hofstadter, R. (1955). Social Darwinism in American thought (Revised ed.). New York: George Braziller, Inc.
• Kitcher, P. (1985). Vaulting ambition: Sociobiology and the quest for human nature. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Miele, F. (2005). Evolutionary psychology is here to stay: A response to Buller [2005b]. Skeptic, 12(1), 58-61.
• Plotkin, H. (1998). Evolution in mind: An introduction to evolutionary psychology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Sahlins, M. (1976). The use and abuse of biology: An anthropological critique of sociobiology. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
• Segerstråle, U. (2000). Defenders of the truth: The battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Wright, R. (1994). The moral animal: Evolutionary psychology and everyday life. New York: Vintage Books.

Forensic Psychology

• Loftus, E., & Ketcham, K. (1991). Witness for the defense: The accused, the eyewitness, and the expert who puts memory on trial. New York: St. Martin's Press.
• Münsterberg, H. (1908/1925). On the witness stand. New York: Clark Boardman Company.

Gender & Sexuality

• Boring, E. G. (1951). The woman problem. American Psychologist, 6, 679-682.
• Hollingworth, L. S. (1914a). Functional periodicity: An experimental study of the mental and motor abilities of women during menstruation. New York: Teacher's College, Columbia University. Contributors to Education,
  69.
• Hollingworth, L. S. (1914b). Variability as related to sex differences in achievement: A critique. American Journal of Sociology, 19, 510-530.
• Tavris, C. (1992). The mismeasure of woman. New York: Touchstone.

Personality Psychology: Testing & Assessment

• Cronbach, L. J., & Meehl, P. E. (1955). Construct validity in psychological tests. Psychological Bulletin, 52, 281-302.
• Kamin, L. J. (1974). The science and politics of I.Q. Potomac, MD: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Meier, S. T. (1994). The chronic crisis in psychological measurement and assessment: A historical survey. San Diego: CA: Academic Press.
• Paul, A. M. (2004). The cult of personality: How personality tests are leading us to miseducate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves. New York: Free Press.
• Spearman, C. (1904). "General intelligence," objectively determined and measured. American Journal of Psychology, 15, 201-293.
• Tanur, J. M. (Ed.) (1991). Questions about questions: Inquiries into the cognitive bases of surveys. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
• Woods, J. M., Nezworski, M. T., Lilienfeld, S. O., & Garb, H. N. (2003). What's wrong with the Rorschach? Science confronts the controversial inkblot test. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Research Ethics

• Blass, T. (2004). The man who shocked the world: The life and legacy of Stanley Milgram. New York: Basic Books.
• Hooper, J. (2002). Of moths and men: An evolutionary tale. The untold story of the peppered moth. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Jones, J. H. (1981). Bad blood: The Tuskegee syphilis experiment. New York: The Free Press.
• Lederer, S. E. (1995). Subjected to science: Human experimentation in America before the Second World War. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Lifton, R. J. (1986). The Nazi doctors: Medical killing and the psychology of genocide. New York: Basic Books.

Research Methods

• Benjafield, J. G. (1994). Thinking critically about research methods. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
• Dunlap, K. (1912). The case against introspection. Psychological Review, 19, 404-413.
• Magee, B. (1985). Philosophy and the real world: An introduction to Karl Popper. Open Court.
• Rosenthal, R. (1966). Experimenter effects in behavioral research. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Social Psychology: Persuasion & Influence

• Billig, M. (1987). Arguing and thinking: A rhetorical approach to social psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Cialdini, R. B. (2001). Influence: Science and practice (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
• Herman, E. S., & Chomsky, N. (1988). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media. Pantheon.

Statistics

• Abelson, R. P. (1995). Statistics as principled argument. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
• Fennick, J. H. (1997). Studies show: A popular guide to understanding scientific studies. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
• Huff, D. (1954/1982). How to lie with statistics. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
• Paulos, J. A. (1998). Once upon a number: The hidden mathematical logic of stories. New York: Basic Books.
• Rozeboom, W. W. (1960). The fallacy of the null-hypothesis significance test. Psychological Bulletin, 57, 416-428.