Judgments of widely held beliefs about psychological phenomena among South African postgraduate Psychology students

Psychologists’ endorsement of empirically unsupported statements in psychology: Noch Einmal

“…Even more concerning, however, is when trained psychologists make claims that are at odds with the findings of empirical research. In previous research, Kagee (2009) and Kagee, Harper, and Spies (2008) showed that both trained psychologists and students enrolled in psychology courses endorsed a large number of factually incorrect statements regarding human behaviour as being correct. Furthermore, Kagee and Lund (2012) interviewed 13 directors of clinical psychology training programmes at South African universities to understand their opinions of the importance of evidence-based treatments in the training of psychologists.…”