Introduction to the Special Issue: Improving Psychological Science

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Diener
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Psychological Science

scholarly journals Feminisms and decolonising psychology: Possibilities and challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-305
Author(s):  
Catriona Ida Macleod ◽  
Sunil Bhatia ◽  
Wen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
The Other ◽  
Liberation Psychology ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Emancipatory Politics ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Gendered Power

In this special issue, we bring together papers that speak to feminisms in relation to decolonisation in the discipline of psychology. The six articles and two book reviews address a range of issues: race, citizenship, emancipatory politics, practising decolonial refusal, normalising slippery subjectivity, Islamic anti-patriarchal liberation psychology, and decolonisation of the hijab. In this editorial we outline the papers’ contributions to discussions on understanding decolonisation, how feminisms and decolonisation speak to each other, and the implications of the papers for feminist decolonising psychology. Together the papers highlight the importance of undermining the gendered coloniality of power, knowledge and being. The interweaving of feminisms and decolonising efforts can be achieved through: each mutually informing and shaping the other, conducting intersectional analyses, and drawing on transnational feminisms. Guiding principles for feminist decolonising psychology include: undermining the patriarchal colonialist legacy of mainstream psychological science; connecting gendered coloniality with other systems of power such as globalisation; investigating topics that surface the intertwining of colonialist and gendered power relations; using research methods that dovetail with feminist decolonising psychology; and focussing praxis on issues that enable decolonisation. Given the complexities of the coloniality and patriarchy of power-knowledge-being, feminist decolonising psychology may fail. The issues raised in this special issue point to why it mustn’t.

scholarly journals Mechanisms in psychology: The road towards unity?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 567-578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Miłkowski ◽  
Mateusz Hohol ◽  
Przemysław Nowakowski
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Mechanistic Explanation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Theoretical Integration ◽  
Mechanistic Explanations ◽  
The Road ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Cross Pollination

The focus of this special issue of Theory & Psychology is on explanatory mechanisms in psychology, especially on problems of particular prominence for psychological science such as theoretical integration and unification. Proponents of the framework of mechanistic explanation claim, in short, that satisfactory explanations in psychology and related fields are causal. They stress the importance of explaining phenomena by describing mechanisms that are responsible for them, in particular by elucidating how the organization of component parts and operations in mechanisms gives rise to phenomena in certain conditions. We hope for cross-pollination between philosophical approaches to explanation and experimental psychology, which could offer methodological guidance, in particular where mechanism discovery and theoretical integration are at issue. Contributions in this issue pertain to theoretical integration and unification of psychology as well as the growing importance of causal mechanistic explanations in psychological science.

Notes on decolonizing psychology: from one Special Issue to another

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Adams ◽  
Luis Gómez Ordóñez ◽  
Tuğçe Kurtiş ◽  
Ludwin E Molina ◽  
Ignacio Dobles
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Local Knowledge ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Thematic Section ◽  
Resistance Approach ◽  
Ongoing Project

In this article, we describe a special thematic section on the topic of “Decolonizing Psychological Science” that we have edited for the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Three approaches to decolonization were evident in contributions to the ongoing project. In the indigenous resistance approach, researchers draw upon local knowledge to modify “standard” practice and produce psychologies that are more responsive to local realities. In the accompaniment approach, “global expert” researchers from hegemonic centers travel to marginalized communities to work alongside local inhabitants in struggles for social justice. In the denaturalization approach, researchers draw upon local knowledge and experience of marginalized communities as an epistemic resource to resist the coloniality of knowledge and being in hegemonic psychology. The task of decolonization requires more than the production of local psychologies attuned to the conditions of particular communities. In addition, it requires decolonial versions of global psychology that are conducive to the wellness of all humanity beyond a dominant Eurocentric subset.

scholarly journals Special Issue of Scientia et Fides on Experimental Psychology and the Notion of Personhood

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Francisco Franck ◽  
Scott Harrower ◽  
Ryan Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Experimental Psychology ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Cognitive Science Of Religion ◽  
Present Issue ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Cross Training ◽  
Science Of Religion

"More recently, cognitive psychologists have used the resources of psychological science to study the foundations of religion, and to discuss and possibly illuminate issues of concern for theologians. The new field, known as the cognitive science of religion (CSR), draws from work by Ernest Thomas Lawson, Robert McCauley, Pascal Boyer and Justin Barrett, among others. Many of its scholars are inspired by a spirit of collaborative work with theologians and philosophers of religion, emphasizing the need of serious cross-training between disciplines. Driven by the same spirit, the present issue of Scientia et Fides documents instances of integrative work at the intersection of psychological science and philosophical or theological knowledge, specifically centered around our understanding of what a person is. We hope that, apart from their individual worth, as a whole these contributions will stimulate further interdisciplinary studies, in order to achieve genuine science-engaged philosophy and theology, and a science that is aware of philosophical and theological discussions." (from the introduction)  

scholarly journals Editorial: Bayesian methods for advancing psychological science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joachim Vandekerckhove ◽  
Jeffrey N. Rouder ◽  
John K. Kruschke
Keyword(s):  
Bayesian Methods ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Psychonomic Bulletin ◽  
Psychological Science

The editorial for a Special Issue of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

scholarly journals Beyond Statistical Ritual: Theory in Psychological Science

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-681
Author(s):  
Travis Proulx ◽  
Richard D. Morey
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Methods ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Ritual Theory

More than 40 years ago, Paul Meehl (1978) published a seminal critique of the state of theorizing in psychological science. According to Meehl, the quality of theories had diminished in the preceding decades, resulting in statistical methods standing in for theoretical rigor. In this introduction to the special issue Theory in Psychological Science, we apply Meehl’s account to contemporary psychological science. We suggest that by the time of Meehl’s writing, psychology found itself in the midst of a crisis that is typical of maturing sciences, in which the theories that had been guiding research were gradually cast into doubt. Psychologists were faced with the same general choice when worldviews fail: Face reality and pursue knowledge in the absence of certainty, or shift emphasis toward sources of synthetic certainty. We suggest that psychologists have too often chosen the latter option, substituting synthetic certainties for theory-guided research, in much the same manner as Scholastic scholars did centuries ago. Drawing from our contributors, we go on to make recommendations for how psychological science may fully reengage with theory-based science.

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