Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?
Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-6916.2007.00051.x
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Funder, David C.
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作者：
Baumeister, Roy F.;Vohs, Kathleen D.;Funder, David C.
心理学称自己为行为科学，美国心理学协会目前的“行为十年”旨在提高人们对这方面科学的认识和欣赏。然而，一些心理学分支学科从未直接研究过行为，而其他分支学科对行为的研究也在迅速减少。我们讨论了人格和社会心理学中的行为，其中行为的直接观察已经越来越多地被内省的自我报告，假设场景和问卷评分所取代。我们主张重新承诺，只要有可能，至少在少数健康的研究项目中，包括对行为的直接观察。
Psychology calls itself the science of behavior, and the American Psychological Association's current "Decade of Behavior'' was intended to increase awareness and appreciation of this aspect of the science. Yet some psychological subdisciplines have never directly studied behavior, and studies on behavior are dwindling rapidly in other subdisciplines. We discuss the eclipse of behavior in personality and social psychology, in which direct observation of behavior has been increasingly supplanted by introspective self-reports, hypothetical scenarios, and questionnaire ratings. We advocate a renewed commitment to including direct observation of behavior whenever possible and in at least a healthy minority of research projects.