1. Social psychology circa 2016: A field on steroids
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Marina Chernikova, Katarzyna Jasko, and Arie W. Kruglanski
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Social psychology (sociology) ,Social Psychology ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Field (Bourdieu) ,05 social sciences ,050109 social psychology ,Outcome (game theory) ,050105 experimental psychology ,Doldrums ,State (polity) ,Community psychology ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Sociology ,Robustness (economics) ,Social psychology ,media_common - Abstract
This paper considers the current state of the field in social psychology. On the one hand, we have made enormous progress in integrating our research with other disciplines, reaching out to general public and using our knowledge toward addressing major societal ills. On the other hand, social psychology has been recently mired in a crisis of confidence concerning the appropriateness of our methods and the robustness of our findings. We propose that shifting our attention to theory, method, and application, as well as away from a pervasive “outcome focus,” can extricate social psychology from its current doldrums and allow it to realize its potential as an indispensable social science.
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- 2017