May 18, 2012

Books

A Naïve Science

Psychology’s GhostsThe Crisis in the Profession and the Way BackJerome KaganYale University Press, $32, 340 pp.

Barry Gault

I often hear a fellow senior citizen declare, “I wish I’d spent more time with my family.” In fact he easily could have, but preferred golf, or working overtime, or whatnot. In any case, his behavior belied his self-report. Such self-reporting is dismally unreliable, and no one understands this better than Jerome Kagan, the esteemed psychologist whose new book distills th (...)


 

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