“Psychology—God Have Mercy, Are You Still Sticking With It?”
摘要
This chapter is the first in Part 5 of the present book. In this section, I venture a look at the absurdities of contemporary times, at narrow-minded manners in psychology, at linguistic discrimination, and at chauvinism in crises, catastrophes, and in the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. I begin by examining contemporary psychology, its currents, upheavals, and narrow-mindedness. Replication crises, data falsification, and data manipulation are also considered. And one seems to sense a whiff of chauvinism when observing the attempts to generalize psychological findings about the behavior of students in Western laboratories or other methodological settings to the “world as such” or to “humanity here and now.” “Since people were discovered,” as Paul Feyerabend put it, “who did not belong to the Western cultural and civilizational sphere, it was almost considered a moral duty to bring them the truth—and by that was meant the prevailing ideology of the conquerors.” Reflections on methodological issues in psychology conclude the chapter.