Social psych questining the foundations of his discipline:
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"During my dark moments, I feel like social psychology needs a redo, a
fresh start. Where to begin, though? What am I mostly certain about
and where can my skepticism end? I feel like there are legitimate
things we have learned, but how do we separate wheat from chaff? Do we
need to go back and meticulously replicate everything in the past? Or
do we use those bias tests Joe Hilgard is so sick and tired of to
point us in the right direction? What should I stop teaching to my
undergraduates? I don’t have answers to any of these questions."
-- Michael Inzlicht, 29 Feb 2016, http://michaelinzlicht.com/getting-better/2016/2/29/reckoning-with-the-past
You could suggest that he consider the experience of another social psychologist, our late colleague Phil Runkel. Perhaps by tracking the record of Phil’s profound metanoia to PCT in Dialog concerning the two chief approaches to a science of life he might find a way to his own.
From: Bruce Nevin [mailto:bnhpct@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 7:57 AM To: CSG Subject: Re: Inzlicht, 2016: Reckoning with the Past
[From Bruce Nevin (2016.03.09.07:50 ET)]
MK (2016.03.08.1630 CET) –
You could suggest that he consider the experience of another social psychologist, our late colleague Phil Runkel. Perhaps by tracking the record of Phil’s profound metanoia to PCT in Dialog concerning the two chief approaches to a science of life he might find a way to his own.
Social psych questining the foundations of his discipline:
“During my dark moments, I feel like social psychology needs a redo, a
fresh start. Where to begin, though? What am I mostly certain about
and where can my skepticism end? I feel like there are legitimate
things we have learned, but how do we separate wheat from chaff? Do we
need to go back and meticulously replicate everything in the past? Or
do we use those bias tests Joe Hilgard is so sick and tired of to
point us in the right direction? What should I stop teaching to my
undergraduates? I don’t have answers to any of these questions.”
– Michael Inzlicht, 29 Feb 2016, http://michaelinzlicht.com/getting-better/2016/2/29/reckoning-with-the-past
You could suggest that he consider the experience of another social
psychologist, our late colleague Phil Runkel.
I am the wrong person to carry out that suggestion. Relieving a psych
from his intrinsic error is probably a job most suitable for the
fellow psychologist.
It is still possible to leave comments to that blog post...
He is high-profile enough to have his blog read by non-specialists.
Thank you for this heartfelt post. I learned of it only yesterday. I
appreciate the several supportive comments.
The problems of psychology and related fields are indeed real and they do
run deep.
I am a mechanical engineer by training and experience, but took an
interest in psychology starting in the 1970s. My readings eventually
brought me to an engineering-oriented approach to psychology that does
not depend on statistics, but rather features modeling and simulations,
simulations that routinely replicate and predict the performance of an
individual human performing a simple task with about 98%
correlation.
Philip J. Runkel, Professor of psychology and education at the U of
Oregon, found it in 1985 and lived to tell about his gut-wrenching path
to a new understanding.
�Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Approaches to a Science of Life� is a
volume of letters over several years that spell out the whole
story.