I'm a huge fan of Baumeister's work, actually! ^^; In terms of other dissenters, one of my favorites is Uri Simonsohn, a person I consider a bit of a personal hero of mine for taking the field of social psychology (my field) to task for doing bad statistics and doing the kind of biased, hypothesis-confirming, cherry-picking practices. Some (myself included) would consider the creators of Terror Management Theory (Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski) to be dissenters, given just how many feathers they ruffled up with their theory and that their theory has for so much of social psychology. Another well-known dissenter in the field is Jonathan Haidt, who's raised the ire of a LOT of members of my field for suggesting that there's a HUGE liberal bias in my field, and that we need more conservatives in social psychology!
At any rate, if you're interested in Baumeister, or just love reading about psychologists who frustrate other psychologists and challenge the field itself, I'd recommend checking out the work of these folks!
I'm a huge fan of Baumeister's work, actually! ^^; In terms of other dissenters, one of my favorites is Uri Simonsohn, a person I consider a bit of a personal hero of mine for taking the field of social psychology (my field) to task for doing bad statistics and doing the kind of biased, hypothesis-confirming, cherry-picking practices. Some (myself included) would consider the creators of Terror Management Theory (Solomon, Greenberg, & Pyszczynski) to be dissenters, given just how many feathers they ruffled up with their theory and that their theory has for so much of social psychology. Another well-known dissenter in the field is Jonathan Haidt, who's raised the ire of a LOT of members of my field for suggesting that there's a HUGE liberal bias in my field, and that we need more conservatives in social psychology!
At any rate, if you're interested in Baumeister, or just love reading about psychologists who frustrate other psychologists and challenge the field itself, I'd recommend checking out the work of these folks!