Are you a Social Psychologist (SP)? AND Has Social Psychology created more good (e.g., gained knowledge, useful interventions, jobs) than harm (e.g., wrong knowledge, wasted time and money, unproductive jobs)?
Social psych had systematically and ideologically stopped three generations of psych students from understanding the evolutionary origins and functions of social behavior, and the heritability of social traits.
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But evolutionary social psych is now part of social psych.
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Mainstream social psych didn't get that memo.
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Most of my psychology graduate peers I’ve talked to see evolutionary psych akin to eugenics or some sort of misogynistic/white-supremacist pseudoscience. Consequently there are “three generations” of opinion-havers who think cultural change can fix anything
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I think the cause for it is implicit in the discipline. Very early on you're taught that social psychology can not be value-free due to the individuals choice of selecting which area within social they wish to study.
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When I finished my social psych masters in 2012 evolutionary was not only not a part of the syllabus, it was frowned upon by dissertation supervisors. I was at a top ten uni in the uk. Has this changed?
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No doubt about...Social psychologists knew sociobiology and behavioral genetics were lethal to their field back in the 70s.
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Heck, before my coffee I thought it read "sociopathic psychologist."
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