Comments on: Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/ In a mad world, all blogging is psychiatry blogging Fri, 24 Jul 2015 12:02:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.3 By: *Slate Star Codex* | Nation of Beancounters http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-118930 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 17:43:03 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-118930 […] 7. Social psychology is a flame-thrower. […]

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]]> By: Les Liens de la Semaine | Les Liens de Pegase http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-111818 Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:54:16 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-111818 […] “Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower” : les errances de la psychologie sociale… où accuser les personnes de “racistes” les rendent plus “racistes”, la violence dans les médias réduit les crimes violents, la pornographie réduit les viols,…etc. Discutable mais intéressant à lire. […]

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]]> By: anon http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-111310 Sun, 29 Jun 2014 17:27:53 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-111310 Can we get that “boring” discussion of stereotype threat studies soon? I find the concept very intuitive and persuasive, which is why it’s important for me to see critical views of it. I don’t think it will be nearly as boring as you implied.

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]]> By: Anonymous http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107830 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:31:50 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107830 Dragon and Rand are both currencies? Dragon and Rand are both bogeymen? No, I don’t get it.

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]]> By: Rand http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107829 Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:28:12 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107829 Dragon!

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]]> By: Denis http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107692 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:10:38 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107692 Coup D’etat

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]]> By: Alexander Stanislaw http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107212 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 23:06:40 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107212 Hmm? He panned people for using social psychology results to assert their political agenda. Results that are as you say – very specific and not generalizable to policy decisions. The goal of this post was to demonstrate how easy it is to create a just so story then cite limited experimental results to support it (and I would add – declare anyone who opposes your policy to be anti-science/sexist/secretly a pedophile/whatever pejorative you prefer).

The post is littered with statements like this:

I don’t consider any of my six completely proven, just intriguing and intuitively plausible. And of course, there’s an element of concern-trolling in all of them.

But I don’t consider any of the second six completely proven either; again, they are merely intriguing and intuitively plausible.

See also the last paragraph.

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]]> By: v http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107202 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 22:35:35 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107202 Nice. You pan social psychology for sloppy work, then for your first example, take a study on a very specific effect (“Does opening weekend affect crime rates?”) and turn this into an incredibly general “Violence In The Media Prevents Violent Crime”. You then spend the conclusion saying that you’re pretty sure you’re right about these things.

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]]> By: Nick Sweeting http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107136 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 20:09:08 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107136 Great article! There is always another side to the argument.

Quick typo report:
“In this post, I’ve give six social psychological”
should be
“In this post, I’ve given six social psychological”

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]]> By: Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower | Blog http://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/22/social-psychology-is-a-flamethrower/#comment-107093 Sun, 22 Jun 2014 18:36:50 +0000 http://slatestarcodex.com/?p=799#comment-107093 […] Social Psychology Is A Flamethrower […]

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