Experimental Psychology: Ambitions and Possibilities

This work brings together different perspectives on psychological methods and particularly methods involving experimentation. To encourage a reflective use of research methods, the authors illuminate the historical, philosophical, and scientific dimensions of methodology, providing both defenses and criticisms of experimental psychology. The primary audience of the work are students and researchers in psychological and behavioral sciences, who have an interest in methodology

About the Author

Davood Gozli completed his PhD in experimental psychology at University of Toronto. He has been a visiting researcher at University of Vienna and a postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University. He worked as an assistant professor of psychology at University of Macau (2016-2021), where he taught courses on cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and history of psychology. His first book, Experimental Psychology and Human Agency was published in 2019 by Springer. Jaan Valsiner is Professor of Cultural Psychology at Aalborg University, where he also leads the Center for Cultural Psychology. He has numerous contributions to theoretical, developmental, and cultural psychology, among which are the recent books, General Human Psychology (Springer, 2021) and Sensuality in Human Living: The Cultural Psychology of Affect (Springer 2020). A recent volume, Culture as Process: A Tribute to Jaan Valsiner (Springer 2021), was dedicated to his many contributionsto the field of cultural psychology. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Culture&Psychology and Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science .