What do we think about and what do we not think about?

Wiesław Łukaszewski

Wiesław Łukaszewski University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Sopot

Keywords: the language of psychology; scientific discoveries; parametric evaluations

Abstract

Jerzy Brzeziński presented many important problems that should provoke community debate on psychological research practices in Poland. In the present article, a few other problems are discussed: (1) first, elitism and a caste system in the publication process, accompanied by disdain for good research monographs; (2) second, the lack of self-criticism and modesty on the one hand and the “publish or perish” philosophy on the other, resulting in the submission of manuscripts that do not meet scientific standards; (3) third, the stylistic level of manuscripts, and even published papers, does not meet academic standards; (4) fourth, researchers’ focus on science bibliometrics, instead of focus on scientific discovery; (5) fifth, in some research scientists observe participants’ imagination instead of measuring psychological mechanisms in behavior.

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