I would be surprised if there was any area where this not present to some degree (or about to emerge very soon). This entry was posted in Zombies by Andrew. I said it before and I’ll say it again: Psychology is not just a club of academics, and “psychological science” is not just the name of their treehouse. The only trouble is that I’m guessing that the Association for Psychological Science has thousands of members who have no interest in protecting the interests of this particular club. Which is fine-restraint of trade is as American as baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet. It’s a guild, man, nuthin but an ivy-covered Chamber of Commerce. “advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology” = enhance the power of a few well-situated academic psychologists and their friends. “protect” = deflect scientific criticism I guess that works, as long as you use the following definitions: The mission of the Association for Psychological Science is to promote, protect, and advance the interests of scientifically oriented psychology in research, application, teaching, and the improvement of human welfare. Nobody’s gonna use concerns such as failed replications, lack of face validity, and questionable research practices to push them around!Īll they’re missing are speakers on ESP, beauty and sex ratio, the contagion of obesity, ego depletion, pizza research, 2.9013, and, ummm, whatever Mark Hauser and Diederik Stapel have been up to recently. The cargo-cult social psychologists have the power, and they’re going to use it. – The person who claimed, “Barring intentional fraud, every finding is an accurate description of the sample on which it was run.” – Yet another researcher who responded to a failed replication without even acknowledging the possibility that their original claims might have been in error. – One of the people who claimed, “That a person can, by assuming two simple 1-min poses, embody power and instantly become more powerful has real-world, actionable implications.” – The editor of the notorious PPNAS papers on himmicanes, air rage, and ages ending in 9. – One of the people who claimed that women are three times as likely to wear red, during a certain time of the month. – One of the people who claimed that women were 20 percentage points were likely to vote for Barack Obama, during a certain time of the month. – That person who slaps the label “terrorists” on people who have the nerve to question their statistical errors. Hey! The organization that publishes all those Psychological Science-style papers has scheduled their featured presentations for their next meeting.
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