I came from engineering to psychology and do very interdisciplinary work and this is often a dilemma for me
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Replying to @artificialsoph
You might be diff. I came from compsci but I think it's offensive to keep saying I'm a compsci, all my pubs are in psychology.
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Replying to @o_guest
also not just offensive but actually threatening esp to women in psy but that's another can of worms.
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Replying to @o_guest
yeah. This is why I've always been wary of "comp cog sci" and similar terms. Specificity is useful. But it also cuts the other way
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Replying to @artificialsoph
oh I love comp cog sci, although I'd go further and say I'm comp cog neurosci.
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Replying to @o_guest
totally. I use those terms. but re: yr pt, each modifier serves to distinguish the "harder" branches of psych from the rest
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Replying to @artificialsoph
oh yeah so ok, lemme just be clear: I would not start that in a discussion that was to dissociate me along such lines. Hence
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Replying to @o_guest
why my pet peeve is my pet peeve. I really am loathe to constantly mentioning (if at all) what I do in those terms. The real
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core of my pet peeve is people who keep mentioning they have a harder background/status/wtv esp in a social setting, e.g., at
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So if X were to meet a new person and they asked X something general and X started saying "I have a harder degree" = MEGA ICK.
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Replying to @o_guest
or "I am not a psychologist" even though this new person is in psy dept and published in psy journals exclusively. LIKE WHAT.
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