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the science that studies your brain using the very organ it cannot fully trust
means The scientific study of the mind and behavior — how people think, feel, perceive, remember, and act.
from From Greek psyche, "soul" or "breath of life," plus -logia, "study of" — literally the study of the soul. The word was assembled in the 16th century in Latin form (psychologia) by European scholars; it didn't settle into its modern, science-of-the-mind sense until the 19th century, when laboratories replaced the soul with measurable behavior. Psyche herself, in myth, was a mortal woman so beautiful she was made into a goddess and married Love — a fitting ancestor for a field that keeps trying to pin down the unpinnable.
- young science
- First lab opened only in 1879
- replication crisis
- Many famous studies failed to repeat
- name origin
- Greek for study of the soul
- fake patient
- Sane volunteers got admitted to psychiatric wards
- undergrad bias
- Much research tested only college students
stanford prison experiment — philip zimbardo's 1971 study where college students assigned as guards and prisoners in a mock jail exhibited extreme behavioral changes within days
milgram obedience experiments — stanley milgram's 1963 yale study where 65% of participants administered what they believed were lethal electric shocks to obey an authority figure
little albert conditioning — john b. watson's 1920 experiment where an 11-month-old boy was conditioned to fear white rats through classical conditioning
tuskegee syphilis study — 1932-1972 u.s. public health service study that withheld penicillin treatment from 600 african american men to observe untreated syphilis progression