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Colonised minds and community psychology in the academy: Collaborative autoethnographic reflections.American Journal of Community Psychology Jun 2022We reflect on decolonization and in particular the process of decolonizing our own minds. We discuss the need for radical decolonization of psychology and for critique...
We reflect on decolonization and in particular the process of decolonizing our own minds. We discuss the need for radical decolonization of psychology and for critique of community psychology's relationship to both psychology and the Academy, noting ways in which community psychology itself becomes appropriated for the colonizing project of the Academy. Using collaborative autoethnography (CAE), a method that involves "collaborative poetics," which chimes with the emphasis on participatory research in community psychology and the decolonialist emphasis on rescuing repressed epistemologies, we review our own careers and identify ways in which our values have been compromised and our work assimilated into wider colonizing and oppressive practices that sustain the modern university. We conclude that community psychology can only decolonize if it is positioned in an agonistic relationship to mainstream psychology and exists as a radical, explicitly political, and ethical practice outside the Academy. The message of the decolonization and disalienation movements is that the biggest barrier to our effectiveness, and to social justice, is the fascism of our minds. Succumbing to the power and privilege embedded in the Academy and the oppressive and colonizing practices that sustain it conflicts with community psychology's purported values.
Topics: Academies and Institutes; Humans; Psychology; Social Justice
PubMed: 35129851
DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12574 -
The American Psychologist Sep 2019In the United States and around the world, economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Psychological research is crucial to illuminating and...
In the United States and around the world, economic inequality is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Psychological research is crucial to illuminating and interrupting the damaging consequences of economic hardship and disparities, understanding interpersonal and institutional responses to poverty and economic inequality, and developing effective poverty alleviation programs and policies. The articles in this special section explore psychology's contributions to understanding and alleviating poverty and economic inequality, focusing on mitigating the effects of economic hardship on children and youth, how employment and work-related dynamics contribute to economic inequality, and psychology's presence in federal policymaking. Collectively, this body of work highlights the need for psychologists' engagement in a full spectrum of antipoverty and economic justice initiatives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
Topics: Humans; Poverty; Psychology
PubMed: 31545637
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Integrative Psychological & Behavioral... Dec 2021This article asks what kind of science psychology should be and what new readings of Vygotsky can contribute to answering this question. Methodology and method are key...
This article asks what kind of science psychology should be and what new readings of Vygotsky can contribute to answering this question. Methodology and method are key to constituting psychology as a science. Hence, the focus is on three major methodologic-methodic approaches to what Vygotsky referred to in his Notebooks towards the end of his life as his and his colleagues' "acmeist psychology" - the objective-analytical, the method of double stimulation and the semic method. Each will be discussed in its own right, followed by a discussion of the interrelatedness of the three in order to provide stimulation for future possibilities. These possibilities - it will be argued - lie in decisively re-orienting psychology as a science that brings single cases and complex semiotic analyses to the fore and thereby also rethinks psychology's relation towards the arts, especially literature.
Topics: Humans; Psychology; Research Design
PubMed: 34515941
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-021-09634-8 -
Annales Medico-psychologiques Dec 1994Health psychology is a new discipline which introduces transactional conceptions and biopsychosocial integrative models of health and disease. Its fields of research... (Review)
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Health psychology is a new discipline which introduces transactional conceptions and biopsychosocial integrative models of health and disease. Its fields of research overlap the traditional domain of psychosomatic medicine (study and treatment of the mind--conscious or unconscious--of organic patients), and also, partially, the domain of psychological medicine (which in France is focused on the psychology of the practitioner and the patient-doctor relationship), behavioral medicine and liaison psychiatry (which is the use of modern diagnosis and treatment of psychiatry proper to medical patients). Rather than a potential competition, one must see a challenge and an opportunity for renewal of psychiatry in the field of medicine as well as collaborative perspectives. Health psychology uses new stringent methodology and instruments for research (dimensions) evolving from scientific psychology. Brief and critical analysis of this new discipline.
Topics: Behavioral Sciences; Disease; Health; Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Models, Psychological; Physician-Patient Relations; Psychiatry; Psychology; Psychology, Medical; Psychosomatic Medicine
PubMed: 7825778
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Perspectives on Psychological Science :... Jul 2023Multisite (multilab/many-lab) replications have emerged as a popular way of verifying prior research findings, but their record in social psychology has prompted... (Review)
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Multisite (multilab/many-lab) replications have emerged as a popular way of verifying prior research findings, but their record in social psychology has prompted distrust of the field and a sense of crisis. We review all 36 multisite social-psychology replications (plus three articles reporting multiple ministudies). We start by assuming that both the original and the multisite replications were conducted in honest and diligent fashion, despite often yielding different conclusions. Four of the 36 (11%) were clearly successful in terms of providing significant support for the original hypothesis, and five others (14%) had mixed results. The remaining 27 (75%) were failures. Multiple explanations for the generally poor record of replications are considered, including the possibility that the original hypothesis was wrong; operational failure; low engagement of participants; and bias toward failure. The relevant evidence is assessed as well. There was evidence for each of the possibilities listed above, with low engagement emerging as a widespread problem (reflected in high rates of discarded data and weak manipulation checks). The few procedures with actual interpersonal interaction fared much better than others. We discuss implications in relation to manipulation checks, effect sizes, and impact on the field and offer recommendations for improving future multisite projects.
Topics: Humans; Psychology, Social; Reproducibility of Results; Mental Processes; Interpersonal Relations; Psychology
PubMed: 36442681
DOI: 10.1177/17456916221121815 -
Journal of the History of the... Oct 1977By the end of the nineteenth century, psychology had become a mature scientific discipline unified around a common paradigm. Although the underlying unity of the field...
By the end of the nineteenth century, psychology had become a mature scientific discipline unified around a common paradigm. Although the underlying unity of the field was recognized at the time, it has generally been obscured in later historical writings. In this article, the first "mentalist" paradigm of scientific psychology is examined. The mentalists shared a common definition of the field, two accepted modes of observation, and a common conception of the relationship between modes of observation and data thus observed. Rival schools advanced competing articulations of this shared paradigmatic structure.
Topics: Behavior; History, 19th Century; History, 20th Century; Psychological Theory; Psychology; Psychology, Experimental; Research; Research Design
PubMed: 336678
DOI: 10.1002/1520-6696(197710)13:4<317::aid-jhbs2300130403>3.0.co;2-r -
Psychological Research Jul 2023The article presents the most important and almost forgotten theses of Franz Brentano's empirical psychology, which have significance for conceptualization and the...
The article presents the most important and almost forgotten theses of Franz Brentano's empirical psychology, which have significance for conceptualization and the method of psychological research. The psychology programme, introduced as early as 1874, remains on the fringes of mainstream empirical psychology, but it was the starting point for Kazimierz Twardowski and his students. The continuation and development of Brentano's thought in the twentieth century can significantly enrich and broaden psychology's theoretical and empirical perspective. This applies primarily to reductionism and the social dimension of mental phenomena.
Topics: Humans; Empirical Research; Concept Formation; Psychology
PubMed: 36183282
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The British Journal of Social Psychology Jan 2023This review examines the coloniality infused within the conduct and third reporting of experimental research in what is commonly referred to as the 'Israeli-Palestinian... (Review)
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This review examines the coloniality infused within the conduct and third reporting of experimental research in what is commonly referred to as the 'Israeli-Palestinian conflict'. Informed by a settler colonial framework and decolonial theory, our review measured the appearance of sociopolitical terms and critically analysed the reconciliation measures. We found that papers were three times more likely to describe the context through the framework of intractable conflict compared to occupation. Power asymmetry was often acknowledged and then flattened via, for instance, adjacent mentions of Israeli and Palestinian physical violence. Two-thirds of the dependent variables were not related to material claims (e.g. land, settlements, or Palestinian refugees) but rather to the feelings and attitudes of Jewish Israelis and Palestinians. Of the dependent measures that did consider material issues, they nearly universally privileged conditions of the two-state solution and compromises on refugees' right of return that would violate international law. The majority of the studies sampled Jewish-Israeli participants exclusively, and the majority of authors were affiliated with Israeli institutions. We argue that for social psychology to offer insights that coincide with the decolonization of historic Palestine, the discipline will have to begin by contextualizing its research within the material conditions and history that socially stratify the groups.
Topics: Humans; Arabs; Psychology, Social; Attitude; Jews; Israel
PubMed: 36349815
DOI: 10.1111/bjso.12595 -
The American Psychologist Nov 2017This article offers a historical perspective on the contributions of the field of psychology and the American Psychological Association (APA) to the public policy arena....
This article offers a historical perspective on the contributions of the field of psychology and the American Psychological Association (APA) to the public policy arena. It traces APA's involvement from a 1956 Council of Representatives resolution on the application of psychology to inform public policy to current advocacy initiatives related to psychological science, practice, and education in the public interest. Attention is directed to APA's early policy structures together with the development of affiliated state, provincial, and territorial psychological associations and the first political action committee for psychology. The criteria for engagement in advocacy and the goals and functions of APA's policy and advocacy initiatives, including the APA Congressional and Executive Branch Science Fellowship Program, are also discussed. The evolution of psychology's public policy role is illustrated by an increasing level of federal advocacy engagement and effectiveness over time, as well as by the emergence of psychology leaders in Congress and the Executive Branch. The authors' concluding reflections on the future of psychology in the public policy arena derive from their many years of experience working on or with Capitol Hill, at APA as elected officials or senior staff, and in various roles in academia, think tanks, service delivery, and the private sector. (PsycINFO Database Record
Topics: History, 20th Century; History, 21st Century; Humans; Psychology; Public Policy; Societies, Scientific
PubMed: 29172577
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Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin Feb 2005Psychology's early allegiance to behaviorism and experimental methods led many to disparage personality approaches throughout much of last century. Doubts about... (Review)
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Psychology's early allegiance to behaviorism and experimental methods led many to disparage personality approaches throughout much of last century. Doubts about personality psychology's viability culminated in Mischel's assertion that measures of personality account for modest amounts of variance in behavior. In the years immediately following this critique, interest in personality research waned and many psychology departments dropped their training programs in personality. Throughout the past two decades, however, personality psychology has enjoyed a resurgence. The authors discuss several possible explanations for personality's comeback and then describe the emergence of a promising symbiosis between personality psychology and its sister discipline, social psychology. The article concludes by noting that although this emerging symbiosis is likely to continue bearing considerable theoretical fruit, the traditional distinction between personal, situational, and interactional determinants of behavior continues to be useful within appropriate contexts.
Topics: Humans; Interprofessional Relations; Personality; Psychology, Clinical; Psychology, Social; Research
PubMed: 15619589
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204271591