Psychologists should watch porn bloopers to get a sense of the reality of human behavior, says Adam Sobel. Sobel: In our eagerness to become a real science we've taken on the attitude and the theoretical approach to how to do science. We're acting like realscient were going through all the steps that a real scientist would go through. Without we are failing to complete the first few steps that a science requires.
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.
Plus, food porn, real estate porn, outrage porn, and David's personal favorite - power washing porn.
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