The Recovery of Introspection: An ethnography and history of experimental psychology

内省的恢复：实验心理学的民族志和历史

• 批准号: 1219400
• 负责人: Emily Martin
• 金额: $ 5.58万
• 依托单位: New York University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1219400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recovery; Introspection; ethnography; history; experimental

Dr. Emily Martin of New York University will conduct research studying how three innovative experimental psychology labs are changing how they study human behavior. In most experimental psychology labs, elicitations of subject's introspections were abandoned after psychology and anthropology split apart at the turn of the 20th century. Recently, however, some labs have begun to use introspections to understand behavior. Dr. Martin will investigate how these psychologists are attempting to do so, and will thereby contribute to the anthropology of science, the anthropology and psychology of subjectivity, and science and technology studies. The project will employ a range of social science research methods in three laboratory settings in different parts of the U.S., including participant observation, interviews, and close attention to what counts as data for the psychologists, as well as an ongoing survey of media coverage of this science. The researcher will follow experiments in each of the three labs, carefully chronicling how topics such as rumination, insight, attention, or choice develop. Through the general interest magazine, Anthropology Now, and through a series of public lectures, Dr. Martin will produce and disseminate new knowledge about the process of research in these innovative labs. This anthropological analysis will help give the public a more accurate understanding of how science advances. The research was co-funded by the Cultural Anthropology Program, the Science, Technology, and Society Program, the Social Psychology Program, and the Perception, Action, and Cognition Program.

纽约大学的艾米丽·马丁博士将进行一项研究，研究三个创新的实验心理学实验室如何改变它们研究人类行为的方式。在大多数实验心理学实验室中，心理学和人类学在20世纪之交分裂后，对受试者反思的启发被抛弃了。然而，最近，一些实验室已经开始使用内省来理解行为。马丁博士将调查这些心理学家是如何尝试这样做的，从而将对科学人类学、人类学和主体性心理学以及科学和技术研究做出贡献。该项目将在美国不同地区的三个实验室环境中采用一系列社会科学研究方法，包括参与者观察、采访、密切关注心理学家的数据，以及对媒体对这一科学的报道进行的持续调查。研究人员将跟踪三个实验室中的每一个实验，仔细记录沉思、洞察、注意力或选择等主题是如何发展的。马丁博士将通过大众兴趣杂志《现在的人类学》和一系列公开讲座，产生和传播有关这些创新实验室的研究过程的新知识。这一人类学分析将有助于公众更准确地了解科学是如何进步的。这项研究由文化人类学项目、科学、技术和社会项目、社会心理学项目以及感知、行动和认知项目共同资助。