1974 in Science - Psychology

Psychology

  • Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins is published by Konrad Lorenz.
  • Leon Kamin demonstrates that Sir Cyril Burt's influential research into heritability of IQ using twin studies shows evidence of statistical falsification.

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