scholarly journals How to Make Psychology a Genuine Science of Behavior: Comment on Dolinski’s Thoughtful Paper

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. e26079 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Fiedler
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Meaningful Behavior

In this comment to Doliński’s (2018, this issue) challenging paper, I express my agreement with his basic ideas and with his concerns about the alienation of social psychology. However, I also present some critical thoughts that amount to a slightly different diagnosis of the present situation. Rather than concluding that our discipline has ceased to study real behaviors, I provide positive counter-examples of substantial behavioral science and argue that the major problem is not to distinguish between measures of “real” and “non-real” behaviors. The problem core, rather, lies in the widespread tendency to mistake statistical and technical indices (latencies, model parameters, fMRI indices, etc.) for measures of meaningful behavior. When technical means become ends in themselves, Doliński’s metaphor applies that “the tail wags the dog”.

Medical Behavioral Science: A Selected Bibliography of Cultural Anthropology, Social Psychology, and Sociology in Medicine

1964 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Raymond Illsley ◽  
Marion Pearsall ◽  
Samuel Bloom ◽  
M. W. Susser ◽  
W. Watson
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Cultural Anthropology

scholarly journals The Task of Social Psychology Is to Explain Behavior not Just to Observe it

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. e26131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Stroebe
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Cognition ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Behavioral Observation ◽  
Dependent Measure ◽  
Behavior Observation ◽  
Behavioral Observations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Attitude Measures

Doliński (2018, this issue) deplores the decline of behavior observation in social psychology since the 1960’s and asks whether (social-) psychology is still a behavioral science. I question both, that there was a decline and that direct behavior observations are essential for a science of behavior. After all, behavior can also be inferred from outcomes and other traces of behavior. During the alleged heydays of behavioral observation, social psychology was threatened by a crisis partly precipitated by Wicker’s (1969) demonstration that verbal attitude measures were often unrelated to behavioral responses towards attitude objects. His critique was devastating, because social psychology at that time relied heavily on rating scales as dependent measure. The advance of the social cognition movement in the 1970’s was to provide social psychology with new techniques (e.g., priming, cognitive load, reaction time techniques) that eased the reliance on rating scales. At the same time, it became insufficient to merely show a relationship between an external event and a behavioral response and to rely on speculations about the internal processes that might have been responsible for this relationship. Instead, studies had to assess the cognitive and motivational processes assumed to link those external events, typically – but not always – using social cognition techniques. This required additional studies leading to a decline in the proportion of studies reporting behavioral observations. I illustrate this development with one of my own research programs and also suggest that in this example an outcome may be a more valid measure of behavior than behavioral observations.

scholarly journals Links Between Work, Character, and Education. The Actuality of Erich Fromm’s Analytical Social Psychology

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187
Author(s):  
Burkhard Bierhoff
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Working Life ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Stable Model ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Distribution ◽  
Basic Ideas

Abstract This article reveals the basic ideas of Erich Fromm’s analytical social psychology and shows links among work, character and education. Social changes may be better understood in the background of work evolution. Today the concept of waged work has been extended to unpaid activities. At the same time, the working life has been changed from a stable model to a flexible one. The work, its standards and social distribution, are also different now. Erich Fromm’s concept of ‘social character’ clarifies the changes and explains the consequences of the social changes. The relations to work are also different. During these changes - unemployment included - concepts of the unconditional basic income were studied. These concepts explain why it’s possible for people without waged work to participate in community life and consumption, without being excluded. The author presents the basic social changes that affected many different subpopulation and age groups.

scholarly journals Potential impact of creative infusion on perceptions and behaviors of visitors: theory and evidence from tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 198
Author(s):  
SİNEM KUNT ◽  
BİLGEHAN GÜLCAN
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Destination Marketing ◽  
Inoculation Theory ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to synthesize creative infusion with the theory of inoculation. It is sought to reveal the potential impact of this synthesis’ application on the perceptions and behaviors of visitors. Relationships among variables are assessed using Solomon Four Group and Factorial Modeling based on experimental designs. The data are gathered from tourists (n = 451) at the Seven Churches sites (Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum, Sardis, Philadelphia, Thyatira and Laodicea) in Turkey. Model results indicate that perceived creative infusion has a significant impact on revisits and recommendations. This is the first study which examines the relationship between perception and behavior by synthesizing creative infusion with inoculation theory in the tourism literature. Furthermore, it is a new contribution to the tourism literature through its revealing that inoculation theory also works in synthesis with creative infusion in the field of destination marketing as previously shown in such fields as behavioral science, communication, marketing and social psychology.

A hitchhiker’s guide to microscopy and microanalysis using telecommunications, e-mail, and the Internet

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 390-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nestor J. Zaluzec
Keyword(s):  
The Internet ◽  
Information Superhighway ◽  
The World ◽  
Exchange Information ◽  
On Line ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
Communication Software ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
E Mail

The Information SuperHighway, Email, The Internet, FTP, BBS, Modems, : all buzz words which are becoming more and more routine in our daily life. Confusing terminology? Hopefully it won't be in a few minutes, all you need is to have a handle on a few basic concepts and terms and you will be on-line with the rest of the "telecommunication experts". These terms all refer to some type or aspect of tools associated with a range of computer-based communication software and hardware. They are in fact far less complex than the instruments we use on a day to day basis as microscopist's and microanalyst's. The key is for each of us to know what each is and how to make use of the wealth of information which they can make available to us for the asking. Basically all of these items relate to mechanisms and protocols by which we as scientists can easily exchange information rapidly and efficiently to colleagues in the office down the hall, or half-way around the world using computers and various communications media. The purpose of this tutorial/paper is to outline and demonstrate the basic ideas of some of the major information systems available to all of us today. For the sake of simplicity we will break this presentation down into two distinct (but as we shall see later connected) areas: telecommunications over conventional phone lines, and telecommunications by computer networks. Live tutorial/demonstrations of both procedures will be presented in the Computer Workshop/Software Exchange during the course of the meeting.

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