It is a matter of scientific debate to what extent intelligence is hereditary. However, in a relatively broad part of the public the opinion prevails that intelligence is to a large extent hereditary,...

Biologism – the idea that the science of biology supplies the means to exhaustively explain psychological processes – has become vastly popular in recent decades. It can be shown that the idea is illusory...

Die Psychologie als Fach, wie es heute an Universitäten angeboten wird, hat seit ihrer Entstehung im 19. Jahrhundert große Anstrengungen unternommen, eine den Naturwissenschaften vergleichbare quantitative...