Culture of honor, one of the great things about it, it uses interviews. But in a field where that kind of ata is not rewarded, you are trained as an undergradder in your first year of grad school to criticize descriptive researches. It might very well be biased, right? You don't have a whole lot of people collecting all those data. There's another way to do it, where you actually open yourself up to entire other fields that are doing the kind of data collecting that you aren't or haven't thought of doing.
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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