Lise Wallach, Research Professor

Lise Wallach

Research Professor
PhD, University of Kansas, 1957
mailing address: Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708-0086
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phone: (919) 660-5741

research interests | publications | courses

Research Summary:
 My past research has focused primarily on the development of Piagetian conservation, poor children's problems in learning to read,the decline of altruism and ethics in the society, and methodological problems in psychological research. My most recent published work has been concerned with demonstrating the existence of circularity in much experimental social psychology; currently I am engaged in writing on different views of mind.

Representative Publications:   (More Publications)

  1. L. Wallach & Wallach, M.A. (2001). Experiments in Social Psychology: Science or Self-Deception?. Theory and Psychology, 11, 451-473.
  2. L. Wallach & Wallach, M.A. (2001). [A Response on Concepts, Laws and Measurement in Social Psychology]. Theory and Psychology, 11, 489-494.
  3. Wallach, L., & Wallach, M.A. (1999). [Why is Experimentation in Psychology often Senseless?]. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 40(Suppl.), 103-106.
  4. Wallach, M.A., & Wallach, L. (1998). When Experiments Serve Little Purpose: Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology. Theory and Psychology, 8, 183-194.
  5. Wallach, M.A., & Wallach, L. (1998). [Of Surrogacy, Circularity, Causality, and Near-Tautologies: A Response]. Theory and Psychology, 8, 213-217.

Courses (Fall 2009):

  • Psy 190s.01, History modern psychol Synopsis
    Soc/psych 237, TuTh 02:50 PM-04:05 PM