<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Henry;</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">Speaking of calling psychology by any other name, I'll plug this article by my esteemed colleague Scott </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lilienfeld</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> that looks at the movement toward </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"eliminative reductionism (the belief that the neural level of analysis will eventually render the psychological level of analysis superfluous)</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Yeah, I've heard this since 1965. And where will it stop? At the level of biochemistry? Physics? Nuclear physics? Subatomic physics?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"> I have never understood how knowing what is going on in various brain centers while certain behaviors are being manifested is helpful in predicting behavior. Let's keep that in mind: the name of the game is predicting behavior. It's not medicine, where behavior can be traced to a brain lesion that may be operable. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Even if one knew exactly what behavior was going to occur when a certain area was active, how are you going to measure it outside of the lab? And if one person was hooked up to all the equipment and watched a commercial and liked it, could you then predict with an accuracy that everyone would like it?</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">No two peoples' brains function identically. The same input yields different, if only slightly different, behaviors. </span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">This is science, so show me how this works.</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">bill w</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Henry Rivera <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu" target="_blank">hrivera@alumni.virginia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><span class=""><div></div><div><br></div><div>On Mar 30, 2016, at 5:57 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite">But to call it something other than psychology is just playing with words and taking credit where it isn't due.</blockquote><br></span><div>Speaking of calling psychology by any other name, I'll plug this article by my esteemed colleague Scott <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Lilienfeld</span> that looks at the movement toward <span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">"eliminative reductionism (the belief that the neural level of analysis will eventually render the psychological level of analysis superfluous)" in psychology. This is in contrast to "emergent properties (the assumption that higher-order mental functions are not directly reducible to neural processes)." The authors note: "</span><span style="font-family:Times;font-size:10pt">a number of psychology departments have recently modified their names to underscore
a focus on neuroscience (Beins, 2012). Such names include
“Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences” (e.g.,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Johns Hopkins
University, Indiana University, Dartmouth University, Boston University, University of Louisville, University of
Massachusetts–Amherst) and “Department of Psychology
and Neuroscience” (e.g., Duke University, Baylor University, University of Colorado at Boulder).</span><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">" The article touches on philosophy too a bit. </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Full disclosure: I'm a (US) psychologist who has taken more than my fair share of philosophy courses. And I aced economics without really putting forth effort. Thus, as you might predict, the so-called field of behavioral economics comes quite naturally to me. I'm not convinced it's not just good ole fashioned psychology however. The name could just be a result of marketing books to a broader audience although they have made a niche for themselves now. But I digress. </span></div>
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