Keith Laws

Keith Laws is professor of cognitive neuropsychology in the School of Life and Medical Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire. He completed a PhD at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge and is the author of more than100 papers and a recent book, Category-Specificity: Evidence for Modularity of Mind. His research focuses on cognitive function in a variety disorders including Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Can We Replicate the Reported Crisis in Psychology?

The problems associated with modern psychology are longstanding and cultural, with researchers, reviewers, editors, journals and news-media all prioritizing and benefiting from the quest for novelty, says Keith Laws.
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