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

Abstrakt

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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