Contributions of the psychologist to constitutional law.

Kendler, Tracy S.

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“…He defended the constitutionality of Oregon's 10-hour-per-day work law for women with scienti c evidence that demonstrated that a woman's health was protected by such restrictions (Kendler, 1950). Brandeis' brief was consistent with the fact/value dichotomy because the legal (value) outcome is not logically demanded by the scienti c evidence offered.…”

Section: Psychology's Contributions To the Resolution Of Moral Con Ictsmentioning

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Psychology and ethics: Interactions and conflicts

Kendler¹

2002

Philosophical Psychology

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The relationship between psychology and ethics is determined by whether psychology is conceptualized as a natural or a human science. If the former, then psychology is incapable of identifying universal moral imperatives because of the fact/value dichotomy that rejects the possibility of logically deriving moral principles or social policies from factual statements. In addition, the inevitability of moral pluralism raises the question as to how natural science methodology can select moral truths or social policies from a variety of presumed alternatives. In contrast, human science psychology, which emphasizes phenomenological experience as a source of psychological truths, has attempted to bridge the fact/value gap. Upon close examination, this approach has failed to suggest a rule as to how the "correct" set of values can be identi ed. The conclusion is that facts cannot dictate moral principles or social policies but they can help illuminate their consequences. Policy decisions become the responsibility of a democratic society, not of psychology.

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Psychology and ethics: Interactions and conflicts

Kendler¹

2002

Philosophical Psychology

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“…I helped, in a very minor way, to organize a report on evidence that attacked the principle itself. I published in the American Psychologist (T. S. Kendler, 1950b) an article entitled "Contributions of the Psychologist to Constitutional Law" that discussed some of this evidence. The notorious principle endured until it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954), in which the Supreme Court declared that separate educational facilities were inherently unequal.…”

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A woman's struggle in academic psychology (1936-2001).

Kendler

2003

History of Psychology

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Tracy S. Kendler's strong desire to get a college education had to overcome economic hardships of the Great Depression and a mother's conviction that finding a suitable husband was more important. Solomon Asch at Brooklyn College, by scholarly example, encouraged her to seek a career in psychology. At the University of Iowa she studied with both Kurt Lewin and Kenneth Spence and finally opted to conduct a research program, ultimately on cognitive development, within a neobehavioristic methodological orientation. Being married to academic psychologist Howard H. Kendler, and a mother of 2 sons, created problems in fashioning an independent academic career, but persistence and research productivity, sometimes a result of collaborative efforts with her husband, finally led to a distinguished career.

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“…It appears that in terms of measurement and evaluation based upon psychological tests, psychologists are accepted in the main as expert witnesses. This tends to be related to the acceptance of social psychological studies of the effect upon personality, as measured by various types of tests, of, for example, foreign languages taught in grade school and desegregation (Kendler, 1950). In regard to statements as to the implications for insanity or psychosis of these behavioral and test observations, there is some support for the view that psychologists are not allowed to testify.…”

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The psychologist as expert witness: A case report and analysis of personal experiences previously reported in the American Psychologist.

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American Psychologist

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Contributions of the psychologist to constitutional law.

Cited by 5 publications

References 8 publications

Psychology and ethics: Interactions and conflicts

Psychology and ethics: Interactions and conflicts

A woman's struggle in academic psychology (1936-2001).

The psychologist as expert witness: A case report and analysis of personal experiences previously reported in the American Psychologist.

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