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ODD (observation- and description-deprived) psychological research.
Tage Shakti Rai,Alan Page Fiske +1 more
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Most psychological research consists of experiments that put people in artificial situations that elicit unnatural behavior whose ecological validity is unknown as discussed by the authors. But without knowing the psychocultural meaning of experimental situations, we cannot interpret the responses of WEIRD people, let alone people in other cultures.Abstract:
Most psychological research consists of experiments that put people in artificial situations that elicit unnatural behavior whose ecological validity is unknown. Without knowing the psychocultural meaning of experimental situations, we cannot interpret the responses of WEIRD people, let alone people in other cultures. Psychology, like other sciences, needs to be solidly rooted in naturalistic observation and description of people around the world. Theory should be inductively developed and tested against real-world behavior.read more
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Facial displays are tools for social influence
Carlos Crivelli,Alan J. Fridlund +1 more
TL;DR: BECV offers an externalist, functionalist view of facial displays that is not bound to Western conceptions about either expressions or emotions, and easily accommodates recent findings of diversity in facial displays, their public context-dependency, and the curious but common occurrence of solitary facial behavior.
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Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses.
TL;DR: How shifting the focus to nonconfirmatory research can tie together many loose ends of psychology’s reform movement and help us to develop strong, testable theories, as Paul Meehl urged is discussed.
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Variation is the universal: making cultural evolution work in developmental psychology.
TL;DR: It is called for researchers to take reasonable steps towards more fully incorporating culture and context into studies of development, by expanding their participant pools in strategic ways, which will lead to a more inclusive and therefore more accurate description of human development.
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Do rewards reinforce the growth mindset?: Joint effects of the growth mindset and incentive schemes in a field intervention.
TL;DR: It is found that the growth mindset intervention did facilitate performance through persistence, but only when the incentive system imparted individuals with a sense of autonomy, which undermined the performance of those who had high initial achievement.
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A Multidisciplinary Approach to Research in Small-Scale Societies: Studying Emotions and Facial Expressions in the Field
TL;DR: Examples are provided, drawn from the areas of emotion and facial expressions, to illustrate potential solutions to recurrent problems in enhancing the quality of data collection, hypothesis testing, and the interpretation of results.
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We Have to Break Up
TL;DR: The cognitive revolution, the virtual requirement for multiple study reports in top journals, and the prioritization of mediational evidence in the authors' data have had the unintended effect of making field research on naturally occurring behavior less suited to publication in the leading outlets of the discipline.
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Collective Action in Action: Prosocial Behavior in and out of the Laboratory
Michael Gurven,Jeffrey Winking +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare game behavior with prosocial behavior among Tsimane forager-horticulturalists of lowland Bolivia and find that food sharing patterns, social visitation, beer production and consumption, labor participation, and contributions to a feast are not robustly correlated with levels of giving in the economics games.
The infant’s acquistion of culture : early attachment reexamined in anthropological perspective
Karin Norman,Robert A. LeVine +1 more
TL;DR: The infant's acquistion of culture : early attachment reexamined in anthropological perspective as mentioned in this paper, where early attachment is considered from an anthropological and social point of view.