He imagines that there's a martian institute of or foundation for furthering science. And they have been studying tennis for quite some time. Then somebody comes along andsays, hey, you know, if you're really interested in sports, like there's this other sport called football that human beings play,. We should start looking at that, he says. He then asks why asked the tennis workers commit money to the murky enterprise of football when such good problems remain with tennis?
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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