"The situation is more dire than, you know, let a thousand flowers bloom. And it's good that certain people are doing more rigor s kind of experiments," he says. "But all of the pressures that we've described and all of the training that goes the other way ... i don't know what to do about it exactly." He points to subjective evaluation as one of the sources of the problem.
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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