I am always very worried when I hear people say things like this. It makes your field sound very unscientific.
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Arguably we've been trying to be too 'scientific' -- and yet here we are in the midst of our replication crisis....
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@nntaleb has made a similar argument which is to use texts from the ancients and pair that with psych research -
Further reason not to do it.
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Is literary analysis not taken seriously as a component of research in psychology departments?
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LOL, literally. I've _never_ heard a researcher give a talk that started 'We thought this was a cool insight from famous novelist X, and we decided to test it....'
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My work asks if literature can supplement clinical accounts of family violence. But I'm pretty weak on the clinical side of things. Anyways, this is a great topic.
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Co-signed. Jane Austen was a great evolutionary psychologist.
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"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book." John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
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Former prison psychiatrist and peripatetic curmudgeon Theodore Dalrymple wrote a whole book (along with countless other essays) on that very point.pic.twitter.com/Oum7r24dXV
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The title “Admirable Evasions,” FYI, is an allusion to King Lear: “an admirable evasion/Of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish/Disposition to the charge of a star!”pic.twitter.com/UQpJgDiSGL
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You make a point similar to
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Agree. 100%. My students homework for Wednesday is : check out one great book from the Western Canon and bring it to class. No reading. No writing. Just check out the book and know it exist
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Harold Bloom is an excellent place to start.
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Literature is the best place to discover depth of culture. (second maybe to direct interpersonal interaction). It facilitates a depth of experience. Bloom said that modern people's emotions started as Shakespeare's thoughts.
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"Henry wrote novels like a psychologist while William wrote psychology texts like a novelist."https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199503/oh-those-fabulous-james-boys …
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Yo, wow didn't expect to see Henry James books on twitter. I've read The Turn of the Screw, plus amazing movie adaptation in 'The Others'. Portrait of the Lady nice soundtrack by Wojciech Kilar. This tweet made my day, thank you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnVLUWfpXEE …
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Rejecting the past and learning - the same things - but from their own mistakes is what kids do. It wasn't a problem until they were all given the platform of social media, it was just kids learning to become mature adults.
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