” he said, “I was so interested in detective fiction that I pitched to my English professor the idea of doing a thesis on the history of the detective in fiction, starting with Poe and moving through Sam Spade and so forth. I saw that as an excuse to write to my favorite...
Even in modern times many people are skeptical that psychology is really a science. To some degree this doubt stems from the fact that many psychological phenomena such as depression, intelligence, and prejudice do not seem to be directly observable in the same way that we can observe the chan...