The biosocial problem in the context of global psychological science: concerningthe “universal” human psychology

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science

Digital Traces: New Data, Resources, and Tools for Psychological-Science Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 560-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anat Rafaeli ◽  
Shelly Ashtar ◽  
Daniel Altman
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Large Scale Data ◽  
Scale Data

New technologies create and archive digital traces—records of people’s behavior—that can supplement and enrich psychological research. Digital traces offer psychological-science researchers novel, large-scale data (which reflect people’s actual behaviors), rapidly collected and analyzed by new tools. We promote the integration of digital-traces data into psychological science, suggesting that it can enrich and overcome limitations of current research. In this article, we review helpful data sources, tools, and resources and discuss challenges associated with using digital traces in psychological research. Our review positions digital-traces research as complementary to traditional psychological-research methods and as offering the potential to enrich insights on human psychology.

scholarly journals Toward a psychology ofHomo sapiens: Making psychological science more representative of the human population

2018 ◽  
Vol 115 (45) ◽  
pp. 11401-11405 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mostafa Salari Rad ◽  
Alison Jane Martingano ◽  
Jeremy Ginges
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Psychological Phenomenon ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Leading Journals ◽  
The Way

Two primary goals of psychological science should be to understand what aspects of human psychology are universal and the way that context and culture produce variability. This requires that we take into account the importance of culture and context in the way that we write our papers and in the types of populations that we sample. However, most research published in our leading journals has relied on sampling WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations. One might expect that our scholarly work and editorial choices would by now reflect the knowledge that Western populations may not be representative of humans generally with respect to any given psychological phenomenon. However, as we show here, almost all research published by one of our leading journals,Psychological Science, relies on Western samples and uses these data in an unreflective way to make inferences about humans in general. To take us forward, we offer a set of concrete proposals for authors, journal editors, and reviewers that may lead to a psychological science that is more representative of the human condition.

scholarly journals An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taku
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science. Methodology-wise, it puts into question a traditional more or less categorical and mechanical approach to the social and behavioural sciences as it strives to introduce a creative and insightful approach for the articulation of ideas. It rather seeks to construe the scientific method as being more about falsifiability and validation but driven by a sense of creative understanding and insight of notions laid out as open-ended conceptualisations. Theory-wise, it sees continuity between anthropology and psychology as anthropopsychology behind an entropic construct of human psychology based on a recurrent re-institutionalisation mechanism for intemporal-preservation-entropy-or-contiguity–or–ontological-preservation.

scholarly journals An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taku
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science. Methodology-wise, it puts into question a traditional more or less categorical and mechanical approach to the social and behavioural sciences as it strives to introduce a creative and insightful approach for the articulation of ideas. It rather seeks to construe the scientific method as being more about falsifiability and validation but driven by a sense of creative understanding and insight of notions laid out as open-ended conceptualisations. Theory-wise, it sees continuity between anthropology and psychology as anthropopsychology behind an entropic construct of human psychology based on a recurrent re-institutionalisation mechanism for intemporal-preservation-entropy-or-contiguity–or–ontological-preservation.

scholarly journals An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taku
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science. Methodology-wise, it puts into question a traditional more or less categorical and mechanical approach to the social and behavioural sciences as it strives to introduce a creative and insightful approach for the articulation of ideas. It rather seeks to construe the scientific method as being more about falsifiability and validation but driven by a sense of creative understanding and insight of notions laid out as open-ended conceptualisations. Theory-wise, it sees continuity between anthropology and psychology as anthropopsychology behind an entropic construct of human psychology based on a recurrent re-institutionalisation mechanism for intemporal-preservation-entropy-or-contiguity–or–ontological-preservation.

scholarly journals Thinking as “Thinging”: Psychology With Things

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lambros Malafouris
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Exact Nature ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Material Engagement Theory ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Engagement Theory ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Transformative Potential

We live and we think inside a world of things made and found. Still, psychological science has shown little interest in understanding the exact nature of the relation between cognition and material culture. As a result, the diachronic influence and transformative potential of things in human mental life remains little understood. Most psychologists would see things as external and passive: the lifeless objects of human consciousness, perception, and memory. On the contrary, my main argument in this article is that things matter to human psychology and should be taken seriously. Although things usually pass unnoticed, they are anything but trivial. Things have a special place in human cognitive life and evolution. We think “with” and “through” things, not simply “about” things. In that sense, things occupy the middle space in between what are usually referred to as mind and matter. Material-engagement theory provides a way to describe and study that middle space where brain, body, and culture are conflated.

scholarly journals An Intimate Insight on Psychopathy and a Novel Hermeneutic Psychological Science

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Taku
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Method ◽  
Human Psychology ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mechanical Approach ◽  
Science Methodology ◽  
Creative Understanding ◽  
Behavioural Sciences ◽  
Present Understanding

This paper is rather a profound hermeneutic enunciation putting into question our present understanding of psychopathy. It further articulates, in complement, a novel theoretical and methodological conceptualisation for a hermeneutic psychological science. Methodology-wise, it puts into question a traditional more or less categorical and mechanical approach to the social and behavioural sciences as it strives to introduce a creative and insightful approach for the articulation of ideas. It rather seeks to construe the scientific method as being more about falsifiability and validation but driven by a sense of creative understanding and insight of notions laid out as open-ended conceptualisations. Theory-wise, it sees continuity between anthropology and psychology as anthropopsychology behind an entropic construct of human psychology based on a recurrent re-institutionalisation mechanism for intemporal-preservation-entropy-or-contiguity–or–ontological-preservation.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Gantman ◽  
Robin Gomila ◽  
Joel E. Martinez ◽  
J. Nathan Matias ◽  
Elizabeth Levy Paluck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
Mental Processes ◽  
Psychological Science ◽  
Behavioral Measurement ◽  
The World ◽  
Pragmatist Philosophy

AbstractA pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

Replications can cause distorted belief in scientific progress

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Białek
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
The Public ◽  
Psychological Science

AbstractIf we want psychological science to have a meaningful real-world impact, it has to be trusted by the public. Scientific progress is noisy; accordingly, replications sometimes fail even for true findings. We need to communicate the acceptability of uncertainty to the public and our peers, to prevent psychology from being perceived as having nothing to say about reality.

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