Psychology Is a Science | Psychology

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[Hope-wwiw]

Do you think that natural sciences provide a good model for psychological studies? Please explain it

[fjmsfjms]

My question is: do you use the scientific method to take psychology to the boundaries of science, or we can keep psychology in the boundaries of science by using another completely different method?

[dit]

I think psychology can be considered a science, but for this psychologists have to be way more careful and rigorous than other scientists. Just because they are working with very flexible term, like "happiness" for example. One psychologist who I think is doing this is Daniel Kahnemann. But not sure how many do...

[jeanemare]

Psychology is too broad as a term, it includes some fields that are sciences and many that are not. Cooking is a science. Faith in science is not science, it is faith.

[stanleyklein]

We use the scientific method. So, you are comfortable with the mantra of necessity (and the heck with sufficiency). Pathetic.