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Fraud and Fallible Judgement : Deception in the Social and Behavioural Sciences.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351289030
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fraud and Fallible JudgementDDC classification:
  • 364.163
LOC classification:
  • H62 .F738 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Deception: Its Varieties and Its Engines -- 1. Deception, Fraud, and Fallible Judgment -- 2. The Fading Myth of the Noble Scientist -- 3. The Role of the Social Sciences in the Analysis of Research Misconduct -- Part II: Advocacy Scholarship and the Refraction of Truth -- 4. Miscounting Social Ills -- 5. Investigating Sexual Coercion -- 6. The Myth of a "Stolen Legacy -- 7. On Self-Suppression -- 8. The Egalitarian Fiction -- Part III: Attribution and Misattribution of Deception -- 9. Making Monsters -- 10. Incest, Freud, and Fraud -- 11. Cyril Burt: Fallible Judgments about Deception -- 12. Cyril Burt as the Victim of Scientific Hoax -- 13. Benevolent Misdiagnosis: Fraud by Euphemism in the Mental Health Professions -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: Fraud and Fallible Judgment is both an exploration of fraud and an examination of the nature of truth in social relations and experience. The essaysin this volume are concerned with deception in the social and behavioral sciences, and conditions that elicit deceptive behavior among scientists, whatever then-discipline.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Deception: Its Varieties and Its Engines -- 1. Deception, Fraud, and Fallible Judgment -- 2. The Fading Myth of the Noble Scientist -- 3. The Role of the Social Sciences in the Analysis of Research Misconduct -- Part II: Advocacy Scholarship and the Refraction of Truth -- 4. Miscounting Social Ills -- 5. Investigating Sexual Coercion -- 6. The Myth of a "Stolen Legacy -- 7. On Self-Suppression -- 8. The Egalitarian Fiction -- Part III: Attribution and Misattribution of Deception -- 9. Making Monsters -- 10. Incest, Freud, and Fraud -- 11. Cyril Burt: Fallible Judgments about Deception -- 12. Cyril Burt as the Victim of Scientific Hoax -- 13. Benevolent Misdiagnosis: Fraud by Euphemism in the Mental Health Professions -- Contributors -- Index.

Fraud and Fallible Judgment is both an exploration of fraud and an examination of the nature of truth in social relations and experience. The essaysin this volume are concerned with deception in the social and behavioral sciences, and conditions that elicit deceptive behavior among scientists, whatever then-discipline.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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