On the relationship between biology and psychology

Abstract. The public in general and academia is under the impression that psychological problems are more and more explained by neuroscientific and/or biological findings. Is scientific psychology ...

Psychology, biology, cognitive neurosciences. On the current predominance of neuroreductionist approaches and their tacit assumptions

Abstract. The cognitive neurosciences are based on the idea that the level of neurons constitutes a privileged level of ...

Neuroscience: beneficial supplementation or unnecessary appendage of psychology?

Abstract. Neuroscience is an important and challenging new scientific discipline for academic psychology. However, there is mounting critics whether neuroscientific findings ...

The neurosciences as challenge and opportunity for psychology

Abstract. The enormous success of the cognitive neurosciences poses a number of potentially threatening challenges for the psychology as a discipline. This contribution discusses several of ...

Where love resides. Thoughts on the significance of neuroimaging research for psychology

Abstract. Despite the great popularity of neuroimaging, there exist some serious epistemological and methodological doubts. In addition, there are hesitations about ...

Biological psychology is more than neuropsychology

Abstract. In a historical retrospect the thesis is developed that psychology is a life science from its subject matter, although this categorization has not been fully met in theoretical and ...