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)?
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Replying to @ImHardcory
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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Replying to @primalpoly @ImHardcory
But evolutionary social psych is now part of social psych.
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Replying to @Chrismartin76 @ImHardcory
Mainstream social psych didn't get that memo.
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Replying to @primalpoly @ImHardcory
@EliJFinkel & Baumeister's Advanced Social Psychology is about as mainstream as it gets. It has a chapter on evolutionary social psych by Jon Maner and@DouglasTKenrick. The evolutionary literature is cited in many other chapters too1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes -
Replying to @Chrismartin76 @primalpoly and
That’s fair, but when I was talking to professors about graduate school, they all told me to avoid the phrase “evolutionary psychology.” Even Baumeister, my eventual advisor, told me to avoid it because it was too divisive. Things have improved even in the past 10 years.
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Replying to @EPoe187 @Chrismartin76 and
I’m not sure I’m a *mainstream* evolutionary psychologist, but I am, among other things, a *proud* evolutionary psychologist. If I’ve been subjected to stigma as a result of that identity, I haven’t noticed it.
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Might be a generational thing. I had to spend 9 years in post-doc limbo in the 90s as an ev psych researcher before I could get a tenure-track job. It was usually the social psych people on search committees who blocked me from being interviewed.
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