NDLI: Shifting Loyalties: Reconsidering Psychology’s Subject Matter

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Author	Beckstead, Zachary
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	Schwarz (IPBS: Integrative Psychology & Behavioral Science 43:3, 2009) cogently demonstrates that in conjunction with scientific conventionalism psychology has developed a rather deficient view of their subject matter: the human being. Psychology based on an impoverished notion of empirical has rendered subjectivity or ‘the measuring apparatus man’ invisible. As his story implicitly demonstrates, psychologists supported by a positivistic view of science (in part to be empirical) and notion of ‘objectivity’ have learned to trust their ‘rigorous’ methods instead of their participants as capable of revealing important and interesting phenomena. If we are going to take subjectivity and experience seriously there should be a cultivation of a new attitude or orientation regarding psychology’s subject matter (i.e., the human being) and science. This commentary discusses Mark Freeman’s (2007) argument that the first requirement of science should be ‘fidelity to the phenomena’ and elaborates on the implications for psychology grounded in this view of science.
Starting Page	221
Ending Page	227
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19324502
Journal	Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science
Volume Number	43
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	19363567
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2009-07-02
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Experience Empiricism Fidelity to phenomena Axiomatics Anthropology Sociology Psychology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Social Psychology Anthropology Cultural Studies Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Applied Psychology

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