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Humanization: The Crash or Reboot of Social Psychology

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If the situation were not already confusing enough, some of the social sciences that study religion seem to have entered extended periods of crisis. For example, as measured by references in historical newspapers available online, in the period 1840–1919, psychology rose from nowhere to overshadow both religion and the pseudoscience of phrenology. Today, however, social psychology, that gave us valuable conceptual frameworks like the Lofland-Stark model of recruitment to religious movements, is losing credibility. George Homans and Satoshi Kanazawa theorized that humanity already understood everything there is to learn about human interaction in the prehistoric state of nature, which would imply that social psychology could at best formalize folk wisdom. New social realities may emerge, such as those caused by communication technologies, but they may be too varied to be studied with small, non-random samples in brief laboratory experiments. In August 2015, the journal Science reported that only a quarter of studies in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology could be replicated, and those that did give reliable results may merely have reproduced traditional findings couched in new terminology. Leading social psychologists like James House and William Sewell have expressed concern over the years that their field has not achieved the progress they had expected. Organizational fragmentation is another sign of chaos, such as the gap between sociological and psychological social psychology, or within psychology the schism of the Association for Psychological Science from the American Psychological Association, or the schism between psychology more generally and cognitive science. Computer-based cultural phenomena like Netflix movies, videogames, and Facebook groups now promulgate countercultures critical of both religion and science.

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Notes

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    www.contendingforthefaith.com/libel-litigations/god-men/experts/stark.html; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_churches_(affiliation), accessed November 6, 2016.

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    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect, accessed November 6, 2016.

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