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

纽约大学的艾米丽马丁博士将进行研究，研究三个创新的实验心理学实验室如何改变他们研究人类行为的方式。 世纪之交，心理学与人类学分道扬镳后，实验心理学实验室大多放弃了对主体反思的启发。 然而，最近，一些实验室已经开始使用内省来理解行为。 马丁博士将研究这些心理学家是如何试图这样做的，从而有助于科学人类学，人类学和心理学的主体性，科学和技术研究。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，访谈，密切关注什么是心理学家的数据，以及正在进行的媒体对这门科学的报道调查。 研究人员将跟踪三个实验室中的每一个实验，仔细记录反刍、洞察力、注意力或选择等主题是如何发展的。 通过一般的兴趣杂志，人类学现在，并通过一系列的公开讲座，马丁博士将生产和传播有关这些创新实验室的研究过程的新知识。 这种人类学分析将有助于公众更准确地理解科学是如何进步的。 该研究由文化人类学计划，科学，技术和社会计划，社会心理学计划以及感知，行动和认知计划共同资助。

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.