Mainstream Psychology, Philosophy, and Points Between

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Osbeck
Keyword(s):  
Mainstream Psychology

The (Un)translatability of Well-Being

2020 ◽  
pp. 377-394
Author(s):  
Tim Lomas
Keyword(s):  
Positive Psychology ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

Positive psychology—the scientific study of well-being—has made considerable strides in understanding its subject matter since emerging in the late 1990s. However, like mainstream psychology more broadly, it can be deemed relatively Western-centric, with its concepts and priorities influenced by ways of thinking and understanding that are prominent in Western cultures. Consequently, the field would benefit from greater cross-cultural awareness, engagement, and understanding. One such means of doing so is through the study of “untranslatable” words (i.e., those lacking an exact equivalent in another language, in this case English). This chapter reflects on the nature of untranslatable words, considers their significance to positive psychology (and psychology more broadly), and offers suggestions for why and how the field should engage with them.

scholarly journals Black Scholarship: Doing Something Active and Positive about Academic Racism

1997 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 201-205 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Duncan ◽  
M. Seedat ◽  
A. van Niekerk ◽  
C. de la Rey ◽  
P. Gobodo-Madikizela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

This ‘article’ serves as introduction to the Special Issue: black scholarship. As such, it outlines the various articles contained in, as well as the rationale for the issue. In this article the authors argue that programmatic anti-racist interventions such as this Special Issue are crucial to the process of redressing the ‘racialised’ patterns of research and authorship characterising mainstream psychology journals.

scholarly journals Criticism and Psychology: The Understanding with a Postmodern Psychology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan David Millán ◽  
Jean Nikola Cudina ◽  
Julio César Ossa
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Realism ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Critical Psychology ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Discourse Psychology ◽  
The Web ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

Frequently, “Critical psychologies” question the ideological and political framework that develops and legitimizes certain mainstream psychology. Nevertheless, it is still a field of knowledge which has not been fully differentiated from its crisis –mainly- because an exhaustive ontological categorical demand has not been made. From the analysis of Ian Parker’s La Critical Discourse Psychology (CDP) and Critical Psychology, we observed that the causes and consequences of the introduction of Scientific realism as an intermediate stage in the elaboration of what has been called radical meta-psychological project or a general critic of psychology. We reviewed, from the quantitative method Multi-RPYS References, an approximate of 51 papers and 10 books of Ian Parker's work analyzed by the web program RPYS i/o. From the start, CDP and PCL avoided the short form of the critic, which is barely a differentiation from the totality of dominant psychology. Instead, they announced, implicitly, some methodological and theoretical tools which could be useful to prevent its definite adhesion to post-modernism, where "anything goes" is its most manifest condition.

Why mainstream research will not end scientific racism in psychology

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-430
Author(s):  
Andrew S. Winston
Keyword(s):  
Brain Size ◽  
Scientific Racism ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Community Project ◽  
Racial Progress ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

Mainstream research on racial essentialization may be valuable in the fight against racism, as Held (2020) suggested. I argue that the production of scientific racism in the literature of psychology is unlikely to be affected by such research. Assertions by psychologists of Black people’s average inferiority in brain size, intelligence, and morality have persisted for over 100 years despite repeated, careful critiques. Recent presentations of these old and discredited claims have sidestepped the fundamental criticism that they rest on essentialized racial categories. The survival of scientific racism in mainstream psychology journals should be understood as a community project with its own Weltanschauung of “racial progress.”

The politics of psychology as a science: Some comments on research for and about the folk

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-394
Author(s):  
Martin Dege
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Psychology Research ◽  
Limited Applicability ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

In the following, I explore the idea of psychology as a science in Barbara Held’s (2020) reading of Thomas Teo’s (and Klaus Holzkamp’s) distinction of research for and from versus about people. Held argues convincingly that research about people entails aspects for people and vice versa. In her view, to equate mainstream psychology research with research from above and critical/Indigenous research with research from below is an oversimplification. She concludes that Teo’s distinction is fuzzy and thus exhibits limited applicability. I want to argue that Teo’s distinction is useful in a political sense and under the premise of research from the standpoint of the subject.

Ethical Considerations in Sport and Performance Psychology

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward F. Etzel ◽  
Leigh A. Skvarla
Keyword(s):  
Sports Medicine ◽  
Ethical Climate ◽  
Ethical Decision Making ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Performance Psychology ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Continued Education ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

The field of sport, exercise, and performance psychology (SEPP) has evolved over the past 100 plus years. SEPP includes professional consultants, teachers, researchers, and students from diverse educational and training backgrounds. Persons primarily from the merging of sport science, kinesiology, and professional psychology have shaped SEPP into what it is today. Client populations typically served include athletes, coaches, and exercisers, and more recently, performing artists (musicians, singers, dancers), businesspersons, sports medicine professionals, and military personnel. These people and phenomena have fashioned an ethical climate that is generally similar to—but in various ways different from—mainstream psychology. While the ethical values and codes of organizations like the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Association of Applied Sport Psychology (AASP) are generally comparable, the perceptions and application of these values and codes in SEPP realms may not match; this is due to the different histories of its membership, as well as the sometimes unusual work demands and atypical settings and circumstances in which SEPP persons function. For both mainstream psychology and SEPP professionals, developments in technology and social media communications have presented ethical dilemmas for many who seek to maintain regular contact with their clientele. These issues, such as the use of technology in consulting, emphasize the importance of core ethical tenets such as privacy, confidentiality, and competence, among others, in the growing area of telehealth. In view of the rather unique ethical climate within SEPP, teaching applied ethics via classroom discussion, continued education, and sourcebooks is essential. To date, there appears to be a lack of continuity in the training and supervision of SEPP students and young professionals with respect to ethical decision making. This presents both a challenge and an opportunity to the current and next generation of scholars, researchers, and practitioners.

Living on the Boundary: Scriptural Authority and Psychology

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Novel Approaches ◽  
Cultural Interest ◽  
Mainstream Psychology

For Christian psychologists to move from their marginalized position with mainstream psychology, they must be able to substantively demonstrate the unique insights that the integration of psychology with Christian theology offers to the discipline. To do this, Christian psychologists must be able to show, not just claim, the authority of Scripture by demonstrating its explanatory power on psychology's terms. Three factors in psychology's new zeitgeist provide both opportunities and challenges to demonstrating Scriptural authority: a growing cultural interest in spirituality, postmodernism, and novel approaches to cognitive science. Cognitive-Experiential Self Theory (CEST) is provided as a concrete example where Christian thinking provides greater understanding of an emerging psychological theory, thus demonstrating explanatory power and providing Scripture a more authoritative position.

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