Social psychology or evolutionary psychology (aka sociobiology)?
Social psychology is (or at least can be) a perfectly empirically based field. :)
Evolutionary psychology... I don't know. Because of the lack of empirical evidence about the psychology of humans' ancestors, it seems to me that it's very often going to be more justification than science. Especially because of the purposes to which it's often put.
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Date: 2008-01-07 11:11 pm (UTC)Social psychology is (or at least can be) a perfectly empirically based field. :)
Evolutionary psychology... I don't know. Because of the lack of empirical evidence about the psychology of humans' ancestors, it seems to me that it's very often going to be more justification than science. Especially because of the purposes to which it's often put.