I think I probably confessed on this program. My father had a master's in psychology. He was the first person in his family to go to college. And yet as you point out, thinking like a psychologist is quite helpful. Psychologists struggle with questions and issues that don't have clean answers much like economics. But the process of grappling with them makes you more sensitive to the complexity of everyday life in all kinds of ways.
Do psychologists know anything? Psychologist Paul Bloom says yes--but not the things that you might think. Bloom discusses his book Psych with EconTalk's Russ Roberts and what the field of psychology can teach us about human intelligence, consciousness, and unhelpful instincts. They also discuss just how far psychology is from a true understanding of the human mind, and why, according to Bloom, that might not be such a bad thing.