title: Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sciences (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
author:  Brian D. Haig 
description: <P>In this important, engaging book, Brian Haig combines a deep understanding of philosophy of science, methods of psychological research, and even statistics to produce an original theory of how research can productively proceed from data, to phenomena, to theory, to understanding.</P><B>David Funder</B>, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of California, Riverside; and author of <I>The Personality Puzzle</I> and <I>Personality Judgment: A Realistic Approach to Person Perception</I><br/><br/><P>Brian Haig builds a systematic explanation-centered account of research methodology, critically reflects on methodological instruction, and positions methodology as a distinct field of inquiry. Haig's thoughtful and integrative book challenges received views while remaining accessible, instructive, and illuminating for readers with different assumptions. The resulting contribution is substantial.</P><B>Keith A. Markus</B>, Professor of Psychology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice of The City University of New York; and coauthor of <I>Frontiers of Test Validity Theory: Measurement, Causation, and Meaning</I>
zlib_text: International Library of Psychology 
  Philosophy and Scientific Method 
  Dialectic 
  
  International Library of Psychology 
  Philosophy and Scientific Method 
  GENERAL EDITOR.C. K. OGDEN, M.A. 
  {Magdalen College, Cambridge) 
  Philosophical Studies . 
  The Misuse of Mind 
  Conflict and Dream 
  Psychology and Politics 
  Medicine, Magic and Religion 
  Psychology and Ethnology . 
  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 
  The Measurement of Emotion 
  Psychological Types 
  Scientific Method .... 
  Scientific Thought 
  Mind and its Place in Nature 
  The Meaning of Meaning 
  Character and the Unconscious . 
  Individual Psychology . 
  Chance, Love, and Logic 
  Speculations (Preface by Jacob Epstein) 
  The Psychology of Reasoning 
  Biological Memory 
  The Philosophy of “As If” 
  The Nature of Laughter 
  The Nature of Intelligence 
  Telepathy and Clairvoyance 
  The Growth of the Mind 
  The Mentality of Apes 
  Psychology of Religious Mysticism 
  Religious Conversion 
  The Philosophy of Music 
  The Psychology of a Musical Prodigy 
  The Effec