Comments on: Psychology narrowing its own mind

By: Links for January 2013 | idiolect

Links for January 2013 | idiolect — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:18:35 +0000

[...] Vaughan summarises Paul Rozin’s list of 7 types of descriptive study which are undervalued by … [...]

By: Wednesday Round Up #115 « Neuroanthropology

Wednesday Round Up #115 « Neuroanthropology — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:19:05 +0000

[...] add that ethnography is a fundamental way to begin that descriptive work.) For commentary, see Mind Hacks and Culture & [...]

By: Alex Holcombe

Alex Holcombe — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:51:33 +0000

I find Rozin’s article
“Domain Denigration and Process
Preference in Academic Psychology”
also in Perspectives On Psychological Science, to be an equally interesting meta-discussion of the idiosyncratic and tradition-bound ways psychology is done.

By: A surprising romantic reappearance « Mind Hacks

A surprising romantic reappearance « Mind Hacks — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:04:02 +0000

[...] readers will remmeber our report of Paul Rozin’s call for more observational reports in psychology. Perhaps he’d approve of this 2003 paper in Nature: Adult persistence of head-turning [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 08:18:05 +0000

I have a lot of sympathy for Rozin’s point. However, one problem with anything other than theory guided ‘microscopic’ level experiments is that most possible observations of the human species have been made before, and made better than psychologists could manage.

By: Raimo J Laasonen

Raimo J Laasonen — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:35:20 +0000

To whom it concerns,
I think Paul Rozin is in the right trace because exaggeration of the so called experimental methods lead to alienation from daily life. Plain finding of covariation is not much,and dependencies do not convert into causalities.
Covariation is just covariation. On the other hand, persons are not cultivation squares wherefrom many of the methods originate. Last but not least: What are the quantities Scientific Psychology deals with? Maybe, they are mental velocity, force, and mass. Cordially,

By: Jonas

Jonas — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:02:34 +0000

Interesting post, thanks.