Domain Denigration and Process Preference in Academic Psychology
Domain Denigration and Process Preference in Academic Psychology
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学术心理学中的领域贬低和过程偏好
DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-6916.2006.00021.x
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
P. Rozin
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作者：
P. Rozin
与大多数其他学科不同，心理学主要根据过程或心理实体（例如，学习、感觉、知觉、记忆），而不是生活的领域（例如，饮食、工作、休闲）。虽然这种组织有其优点，但一个可能意想不到的结果是，心理学对生活的主要领域以及人们如何在其中发挥作用的关注最少。对当代主要的入门、社会和发展心理学教科书的研究表明，它们的索引几乎没有包含代表五个关键领域的术语：食物、政治、宗教、休闲娱乐和工作。心理学的过程划分至少可以追溯到冯特和詹姆斯，可能源于心理学的起源和早期致力于发现心灵的一般规律。心理学中对生活领域研究的回避与几种力量有关，包括对应用研究和描述性研究的降级，而有利于理论和实验室实验。心理学将受益于更多地关注描述和解释人们实际上做了什么，这一奋进可能会通过关注日常生活领域而得到促进。
Unlike most other disciplines, psychology parses its field primarily in terms of processes or mental entities (e.g., learning, sensation, perception, memory), rather than domains of life (e.g., eating, work, leisure). Although there are merits in this organization, a perhaps unintended result is that psychology has paid minimal attention to the major domains of life and how people function in them. Examination of contemporary major introductory, social, and developmental psychology textbooks reveals that their indexes include almost no terms representing five critical domains: food, politics, religion, leisure-entertainment, and work. The process division of psychology dates back at least to Wundt and James, and probably derives from psychology's origins and early dedication to discovering general laws of the mind. The avoidance of study of life domains in psychology is related to several forces, including a downgrading of both applied research and descriptive research in favor of theory and laboratory experimentation. Psychology would profit from paying greater attention to describing and explaining what people actually do, an endeavor that would perhaps be facilitated by a focus on the domains of daily life.