Is Psychology Still a Science of Behaviour?

Abstract: Since the 1970s, social psychology has examined real human behaviour to an increasingly smaller degree. This article is an analysis of the reasons why this is so. The author points out that the otherwise valuable phenomenon of cognitive shift, which occurred in social psychology precisely in the 1970s, naturally boosted the interest of psychologists in such phenomena like stereotypes, attitudes, and values; at the same time, it unfortunately decreased interest in others, like aggression, altruism, and social influence. In recent decades, we have also witnessed a growing conviction among psychologists that explaining why people display certain reactions holds greater importance than demonstrating the conditions under which people display these reactions. This assumption has been accompanied by the spread of statistical analysis applied to empirical data, which has led to researchers today generally preferring to employ survey studies (even if they are a component of experiments bein.... https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2411

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Is Psychology Still a Science of Behaviour? ; volume:13 ; number:2 ; day:29 ; month:05 ; year:2018
Social psychological bulletin ; 13, Heft 2 (29.05.2018)

Urheber
Dariusz Doliński

DOI
10.5964/spb.v13i2.25025
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2020101416305880569364
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