Research Interests for Lise Wallach

Research Interests: Theoretical Psychology

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.

Keywords:
philosophy of psychology, history of psychology, systems of psychology, folk psychology, falsification, psychological laws
Current projects:
book on different views of mind
Recent Publications
  1. L. Wallach & Wallach, M.A., Experiments in Social Psychology: Science or Self-Deception?, Theory and Psychology, vol. 11 (2001), pp. 451-473.
  2. L. Wallach & Wallach, M.A., A Response on Concepts, Laws and Measurement in Social Psychology, Theory and Psychology, vol. 11 (2001), pp. 489-494.
  3. Wallach, L., & Wallach, M.A., Why is Experimentation in Psychology often Senseless?, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, vol. 40 no. Suppl. (1999), pp. 103-106.
  4. Wallach, M.A., & Wallach, L., When Experiments Serve Little Purpose: Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology, Theory and Psychology, vol. 8 (1998), pp. 183-194.
  5. Wallach, M.A., & Wallach, L., Of Surrogacy, Circularity, Causality, and Near-Tautologies: A Response, Theory and Psychology, vol. 8 (1998), pp. 213-217.