Trolls think that it is their job to express themselves in this way. Some people have lost any sense that that isn't just all that's expected, and that there is actually this kind of more difficult, more complex, messy engagement with the real world. But i think you are right that the people who do this the most are probably the people who would least think of what they are doing as point.
Is social psychology just a kid dressing up in grown-up science clothes? Are the methods in social psychology--hypothesis-driven experiments and model-building--appropriate for the state of the field? Or do these methods lead to a narrowing of vision, stifled creativity, and a lack of informed curiosity about the social world> David and Tamler discuss the strong methodological critique of psychology from two of its leading practitioners - Paul Rozin and Solomon Asch.
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