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Social Psychology and Science: Some Lessons From Solomon Asch
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This article presents a methodological critique of the predominant research paradigms in modern social psychology, particularly social cognition, taking the approach of Solomon Asch as a more appropriate model. The critique has 2 parts. First, the dominant model of science in the field is appropriate only for a well-developed science, in which basic, real-world phenomena have been identified, important invariances in these phenomena have been documented, and appropriate model systems that capture the essence of these phenomena have been developed. These requirements are not met for most of the phenomena under study in social psychology. Second, the model of science in use is a caricature of the actual scientific process in well-developed sciences such as biology. Such research is often not model or even hypothesis driven, but rather relies on “informed curiosity” to motivate research. Descriptive studies are considered important and make up a substantial part of the literature, and there is less exclusive reliance on experiment. The two parts of the critique are documented by analysis of articles in appropriate psychology and biology journals. The author acknowledges that important and high quality work is currently being done in social psychology, but believes that the field has maladaptively narrowed the range of the phenomena and methodological approaches that it deems acceptable or optimal.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Rozin, P.
- Venue
- Personality and Social Psychology Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-02
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 2-14
- ISSN
- 1088-8683 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7957
- OpenAlex
- W2100213394
- Cited by
- 349
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 20.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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