[hef19898]

For everything genetic, biology and evolution related, I'd rather prefer psychologists to shut up. Unless the publish together with researchers in those fields. If they don't, it resembles more the BS "evolutionary psychology" than actual science.

[red-iron-pine]

ITT: biology has no impact on psychology. guess all those anti-depressants need to get tossed out the. Pretty sure schizophrenia is heavily genetic / predisposed, too...

[dumpsterdiver]

To be fair, almost every new college student (exaggerating) starts off wanting to join the mysterious field of psychology. As they continue to learn and grow most of those students use their critical thinking abilities to conclude:

* There is no cushy job waiting on the other side of a Psychology degree for most people, but more likely a job in an unrelated field.

* Psychology is about the softest science we have, to the point that it eschews the general rigor of the scientific process in favor of what can only be described as pathological bike-shedding. Can you remember the last thing that came out of this field that wasn’t just some form of moving labels around?

* Feelings are unfalsifiable, and humans are known liars and drug addicts. Some people will absolutely lie every chance they can to get what they want, and will even make a living out of doing that (for instance, illegally selling prescription medication on the streets that never should have been prescribed in the first place). Dishonest people like this will inevitably be the same people providing the “evidence” for some of these studies. And so an already soft science becomes even softer because professional grifters have an incentive to taint the samples by lying (even if they are misguided and ultimately wrong about gaining any benefit).

The students whose critical thinking abilities did not make them aware of these things, or worse, did inform them but they didn’t care… those are the people who end up publishing Psychology papers.