Is Psychology a Science?

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Psychology research can be tricky, because brains are complicated. But does that mean it isn't a science?
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@Kai-vo5zq 7 лет назад

You could have called this channel "PsyShow".

@casey653 7 лет назад

LDaveEvan *siiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhh*

@TheTexas1994 7 лет назад

TripleQ *siiiiiiiiggggggggghhhhhhhshow

@open_flame3730 7 лет назад

TripleQ psyyyyyyyy

@shotgunreaper 7 лет назад

This is the best comment, thank you LDaveEvan

@DoorSCARF 7 лет назад

@MusiCaninesTheMusicalDogs 7 лет назад

I really hope the next video is about the replication crisis in psychology!

@skehmatics 7 лет назад

Man, hank seems... pretty psyched

@doubleru 7 лет назад

It's a strategically sound to have him host the very first video on the new channel. Of all the SciShow hosts, he does introductions best. :-)

@SpeedOfTheEarth 7 лет назад

Skehmatics +

@IamSamys 7 лет назад

I came to the comment section to look for exactly this

@alexisholguin1966 7 лет назад

😂😂😂 I applaud you sir

@canadiantemple 7 лет назад

YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAH!!!

@maddiev2323 7 лет назад

Super excited for this new channel!

@cholten99 7 лет назад

Really interesting to see "self reporting" put on a par with measuring something concrete like endorphin levels. It'd be really interesting to see a video on the value and issues surrounding self reporting as a methodological tool for psychology.

@muffinbanana Год назад

I know it's been six years, but maybe it's still relevant to you: If you think about it, endorphin levels are not as concrete as they sound. Every person has an individual endorphin level inducing individually different physical and psychological reactions with individual cognitive assessments of those reactions, all of which are based on individually different prior experiences and development. In the end, the endorphin level itself only covers a part of what potentially constitutes the experience of happiness in a person, and can only suggest a tendency. A very useful tendency, yes, but still no psychophysiological measurements can lead to an objective, comprehensive assessment of happiness, as the concept of happiness was never solely based on physiology to begin with. Say, for example, someone choosing the number 7 on a 1-to-10 scale when being asked about how happy they feel, is just as concrete a measure, as it (unidimensionally) addresses an important aspect of happiness, just like endorphin level (unidimensionally) addresses a different one. Which of the possible aspects of happiness you choose to assess depends on, like Hank said, the study-specific reasons and desired type of data. This food for thought is not as helpful and cool as a scishow video by far, but might be interesting nonetheless. :)

@stanleyklein524 10 месяцев назад

You are clueless as to the issues in play. A likert scale is as arbitrary a measuring instrument as ever has been adopted by a discipline(in this case -- a discipline consumed with the desire to be accepted as science). The "numbers" on a Likert scale have no interval or ratio properties (as expect of a real science). They are at best ordinal (more likely nominal). You cannot differentiate theoretic claims based on ordinality. More, comparing subjective interpretation of symbols (Likert symbols are numeric in name only) with consensually agreed on physical measures (e.g., the objective number of times variable X is observced) is a fool's task. More, Likert values have no numeric meaning. If I rate myself 5 on a happiness scale (sic), and rate yourself 5, is it logically justified to say we experience the same subjective feeling of happiness? No! More (good grief) -- you conflate individual variation with between-participant variability. Please tell me you do not have an advanced degree (we already credential too many way beyond their capabilities). @@muffinbanana

@aRchAng3lZz 8 месяцев назад

@@stanleyklein524 no, that's about the standard for an MSc in Psych. The whole replication crisis spectacle, showed that it is almost universal standard - we were fine with measurement being defined as "assigning numbers to things" (true story) and while now some people in the field are a bit more aware, my sense is that not much has changed in understanding (one can extrapolate from how we address said crisis).

@Luca-mv9vd 7 лет назад

psychology is a science only when it reaches its conclusions thanks to neurology, when it applies sociology it can be descriptive (with limitations) at best, but not scientific within the standards of the natural sciences.

@egopathtime3273 2 года назад

Psychology is probabilistic, not deterministic.

@Luca-mv9vd 2 года назад

@@egopathtime3273 It is so because the human mind is changeable and subjective and there is no way to get direct access to it nor there is any formal language to universally describe it or analyze it.

@tooting_owl8543 7 месяцев назад

@@egopathtime3273 The etymology of 'science' is literally knowledge or what is known. If psychology is probabilistic it is more assumed. In the natural sciences irrefutable conclusions exist because they are arrived at through logic, which is a more powerful tool than observation.

@megalyssa 7 лет назад

So excited for this channel. Huge thank you to the scishow patrons! You guys rock and keep this going for those of us who can't pay for the content. And of course the scishow team for making this awesome content

@andressanchez5007 7 лет назад

can you make at least one that has to do with autism and our brains

@agjakku 7 лет назад

I would be surprised if they wouldn't do anything about autism, just wait :) as for brains, whole psychology focuses on them, therefore this whole channel propably will too!

@omarkoussa2446 7 лет назад

Fun fact Autism is now categorized under neurological disorders not psychological

@SpeedOfTheEarth 7 лет назад

Noname +

@thala404 7 лет назад

+Omar Koussa - Actually, if you want to quibble, it is classified as a pervasive NEURO-DEVELOPMENTAL disorder...

@MakeMeThinkAgain 7 лет назад

I was going to suggest they add Neuroscience to this and Crash Course Sociology. I would think that understanding autism was more about neuroscience than simply psychology. Temple Grandin's "Thinking In Pictures" and Oliver Sacks's book where he talks about Grandin would be good places to start looking for this kind of information.

@remmaps123321 6 лет назад

As a psychology major, I'll drop my two cents here. In my university, it's under the School of Social Sciences. The hardest part about answering the question "Is Psychology A Science?" is that there are numerous approaches to psychology - all of which are entirely different from each other. For instance, Psychodynamics (Freud, Adler, etc.) barely has any empirical evidence let alone scientific explanations; it is more philosophical in nature. Cognitive and Behaviorist (Skinner, Bandura, etc.) approaches are still made up of abstract concepts but are based on experimentation and observed empirical evidence. Physiological Psychology (behavioral neuroscience), is probably the most scientific you could get with psychology; it studies emotions, intelligence, abilities, internal states, etc. in the lens of the nervous system. In my opinion, it is a social science, but is a collection of scientific and philosophical concepts, and there's nothing wrong with that.

@raghav9o9 3 года назад

It's collection of social(studying abstract things or studying about human social behaviour)+ science (by scientific method) === Social Science.

@user-np3li4pl3i 3 года назад

I agree. It doesn’t mean psychology isn’t scientific it’s just not a science. I think the reason for this debate is people see “science” as this god like existence and glorify it. I mean maths isn’t a science either.

@judetong9614 2 года назад

Science, from the Latin word "Scientia" which means knowledge. Knowledge is not only about using laboratory settings and experiments but to search for information. Just like applied science, computer science, political science, health science, formal science, behavioral science, biological/life science, physical science, earth science, social science... We all need knowledge and Natural Sciences aren't the only ones that provide it.

@antojames9387 2 года назад

@@user-np3li4pl3i no. maths and its calculations are objective. They are testable and empirical by experimental support. But psychology is something like 50% science and 50% untestable hypothesis. Most of its empirical stuffs adapted are actually generalization, which may or mayn't be true.

@irvingsherwood1234 2 года назад

There is a huge problem with it, if you're advocating chemical treatment on "philosophical" and theoretical basis - the only valid approach in that case is with a comprehensive biological understanding of the neurological/behavioral correlation - which we are not fully with, and instead, industry is taught to exploit what we don't know, instead of building upon what we do. You should find the answer to the question posed by the title in the other comment I just posted. It may inspire you plural.

@untitlednewuser 7 лет назад

Psychology has different "currents". Some use scientific methodology (behaviorism, neuropsychology) but others rarely do (psychoanalysis). There is a huge difference between Skinner and Freud.

@lostthepirate6311 7 лет назад

Bob Bobson I hope that they do an episode on the history of psychology, as well as the differing schools of thought within it - you're right, there's such a huge difference between different eras and schools of thought in psychology.

@shinomustdie 4 года назад

@@lostthepirate6311 That would make it a philosophy

@swavekbu4959 3 года назад

@@shinomustdie Science is an empirical philosophy.

@lazyperfectionist1 7 лет назад

At the 1:46 point, I'm pausing to emphasize this point. A _testable_ hypothesis means a hypothesis that is *verifiable if true* _and_ *falsifiable if false.* This means that you have to be able to brainstorm, beforehand, about which observable manifestations should exist in _both_ cases, and then you should be able to check for both, and if _both_ are observable, then your conclusions are not useful.

@Haphro-V 4 года назад

Is not science

@judetong9614 3 года назад

It is still a Science, but it is not a perfect Science like Natural Science. Psychology is considered a Social Science.

@adragonflyingnorth971 2 года назад

Exactly I've been debating with a stem bro about this, the very own paradigm psychology comes from is not verifiable nor scientific, psychology is much a science as poetry is

@aktchungrabanio6467 Год назад

@@judetong9614 Social what?

@kisakisakura6663 7 лет назад

I can't believe it took me this long to find this channel. Instantly subscribed. Keep up the amazing work!

@romantheflash 7 лет назад

As a person with a psych degree, I appreciate this first video very much. Something important to show a lot of people what they will be getting into when they start psych (I found a lot of people did not expect the stats or so much science of it and dropped out pretty quickly or changed degrees....)

@markplimsoll Год назад

Bulloney, a liar, no understanding of real science, or self-medicating for self-diagnosed disorder? Evidence for Higgs Boson came almost immediately after turning on Cern Switzerland's Large Hadron Colider in 2010, built for the international physics community for $14 billion on confidence in the math from the 1960s. What does Psychology give us? Pop-psy fads, currently "narcissist" and "narcissism." The REALLY UGLY TRUTH: Psycholgy gave USA three Mass Histerias; Satanic Killings Alien Abductions, and Hypnotic Regression of adults to "recover" parental child abuse, putting innocent grandparents in jail. Laws still on the books against this witchdoctoring. In college, those who cannot handle math and real science opt for psychology, to become "therapists" with no adequate training, no professional guidelines, no supervision nor supervising agency, and NO ACCOUNTABILITY. Yet we let Courts pimp them for "expert opinion" hearsay?!? Google "Is psychology science?" RESULT: Why psychology is not considered a science? "Because psychology often does not meet the five basic requirements for a field to be considered scientifically rigorous: clearly defined terminology, quantifiability, highly controlled experimental conditions, reproducibility and, finally, predictability and testability. Aug 13, 2013"

@pharma37 10 месяцев назад

There are very few degrees easier than a Psych degree. Whenever I saw an airhead on campus, I already knew they were a Psy major. They constantly wanted to appear intelligent, and that meant they were the easiest to manipulate.

@crismidi5891 8 месяцев назад

@@pharma37ah yes this is so factual

@pharma37 8 месяцев назад

@@crismidi5891 The only thing you had to do was politely disagree with everything they say. They can't handle it, so they sleep with you to prove you wrong. Every. Single. Time.

@crismidi5891 8 месяцев назад

@@pharma37 them being assholes dont make psychology invalid

@maryelizabeth3055 4 года назад

love how my psychology teacher starts us with this awesome video!

@geigercourtier 3 года назад

You should probably drop that class if you want more than a credit

@henrikhansen1023 3 года назад

On his premises for science anybody can invent at field of study and claim it to be science. There is a zillion reason why psychology can never på science the way physics and biology is science.

@Psychedlia98 11 месяцев назад

@@henrikhansen1023 Yes, despite the decades of research and it continuing to evolve, therefore it is not a science, you guys have a mechanical view on the world

@henrikhansen1023 10 месяцев назад

@@Psychedlia98 Look, of course you can disagree. But.... ....then again: If psychiatrists claim that not all diseases can be astablished like cholera, broken legs and bronchitis.... .....does that excuse them for providing some sort of proof for that claim? Meaning tells is how they know that for a fact!? Fact is psychiatry wants us to accept same as science simply by their claim. The very people who mistreated their clients with cold water after forceful stripping, insuline shock, lobotomy, thorazine, electro shock ..... .....and even electrical torture USED RIGHT UP TO MODERN TIMES at the Judge Rotenberg the so called educational center. Under the eufemism adversale therapy. Same way they tried to cured homosexuality. Psychiatry is simply not an acceptable and legitimate instution. If psychiatry can claim to be science on psychiatrist’s stated terms then so can astrology

@henrikhansen1023 10 месяцев назад

@@Psychedlia98 Speaking of decades of research: Research is exactly what psychiatry is supposed to be able to provide for validation to anybody who wants for their so called mental diseases. Besides......decades is an understatement when speaking of the so called chemical imbalance in the brain. Try 70 years - substantially more than half a century - spending billions of dollars. And what have psychiatrists been able to come up with after all that time not to mention money: Exactly nothing.

@slipknotboy555 6 лет назад

3:54 Yep; I was really impressed how much time was spent on the importance of critical thinking, the scientific method, objective evidence, understanding bias (including in oneself), and of course, pseudoscience, among other things, in my second intro psych course a couple years ago. I was in a different major at the time, but am in psych now. Many logical fallacies were covered, and everyone was shown how to interrogate claims/spot pseudoscience pretty damn well, for example.

@markplimsoll Год назад

@meridianheights6255 10 месяцев назад

So, you think psychology is BS then?

@solitarynerdette 7 лет назад

the visuals in this vid are really helpful for me to understand the subject matter and ideas discussed, thank you keep up the good work! :)

@devinbarney 7 лет назад

I am incredibly incredibly excited for this channel. As a budding student of cultural psychology, my stake in the clear communication of this science could not be greater. Thank you so much for producing this work! From brief SciShow coverage to CrashCourse Psychology lectures... and now this. Thank you thank you! I would love to offer a hand at any research/writing needs if there's need!

@sugarsaltspice 2 года назад

Well said!

@DavidHogg1 7 лет назад

Please do a video on overcoming procrastination

@RockBandRS 7 лет назад

Plasmaboo Maybe later.

@armadillito 7 лет назад

Plasmaboo will do.

@RuffoDaSilva88 7 лет назад

Davis Green maybe later

@HalcyonSerenade 7 лет назад

I'm sure they'll get around to it.

@Dustpuma1 7 лет назад

Watched a ted talk, talking about if you don't make a physical action to accompany your thought, you're way less likely to do it. Example: ugh I need to wash the dishes, then if you continue to sit there or get up later with a different purpose you won't do it at all.

@juliehester5626 7 лет назад

Subscribed! As a psychology major at a university I'm very excited about this channel😁

@DrJessica 5 лет назад

Love this! Thank you so much for creating SciShow Psych!

@Pyriphlegeton 7 лет назад

Thanks a lot for launching this channel! :) It will be a very interesting journey, I'm sure.

@atiger4716 3 года назад

How it is possible to said so many word to mean nothing. Psicology is not a science, perhaps a pseudoscience.

@Vidiri 7 лет назад

It's awesome that they are starting this channel. It's so hard to find reputable sources that talk about psychology in layman's terms.

@aericwinter 7 лет назад

I'm so glad the patrons picked Psych as the new SciShow channel. Can't wait to see the first videos.

@savannah4439 7 лет назад

Idk, I'm not entirely convinced...From all the psych that I've taken, much of the data comes from some sort of self-reporting system, like having people rate an experience or say how something made them feel. Neuroscience, yes, obvious, observable science. But psych? Seems more like a "hard" social science to me. The whole idea of social science *is* applying the scientific method/reasoning to other, usually more abstract fields, which sounds suspiciously like a description of trying to scientifically study the mind. I don't think that makes it any lesser than a more definitive science like neuro, just different. Heck, I'm a pre-med social science major for crying out loud! I still think it's a social science, but I'm willing to be convinced if/when later videos give me that data to support the claim.

@lostthepirate6311 7 лет назад

Savannah I appreciate you keeping an open mind, and hopefully the channel will help you better understand the modern state of psychology. :)

@prairiewolfo9274 5 лет назад

Savannah I agree with one of the others who answered. Psychology isn't a science, it's an art, and as such is not bounded by the moral constraints that bind the true sciences. Axiom: When satan fell from heaven he dragged with him one third of divine beings. Identity: Sigismund Schlomo Freud. When things don't go the way psychologists want they use determination and force to impose their ideas on the victim, rather than patiently waiting to learn. Being shackled in this retardation is enough, but it is very hard to see. Wait patiently and you may come to understand the truth about the cursed kingdom of psychoanalysis.

@Grahamf4 4 года назад

@@prairiewolfo9274 Sorry but that is nonsense. Psychology is not a hard science and never can be but it is not an art in any way or form. Of course it is bound by moral constraints. Any psychologist (researcher or clinician) is bound by a set of ethical guidelines they need to follow. They would not be allowed to practice or conduct research otherwise.

@prairiewolfo9274 4 года назад

Graham Ford Your reply is located in the mundane sphere we call “our society”. There are higher spheres, and ways of being prevented from practicing other than being struck off by a controlling body. If human conduct was morally perfect there would be no suffering or disease in the world. Everyone else being imperfect doesn’t make the psychologist better. It must be relatively easy to satisfy governing bodies in “our society”, since it was certainly achieved by Fermi and co. at the Manhattan Project, not to mention the dons at Harvard who invented napalm: two innovations without a morally justifiable use. Any practice that plays on others’ weaknesses or unpreparedness is at best an art, like that of the door to door salesman or card sharp. From your tone, I would surmise that you occupy a role in society as a scientist (or possibly a psychologist). If psychology is a science you should be able to quite easily show the error in one who opposes you; conversely if it is an art whatever tricks you could try would be seen by the perceptive. My view is that psychology is just what the founders of true science called sophistry: they harm themselves (and others) but cannot admit the connection between the suffering and their sinister deeds. Some of them might even try to play on the weakness of society in order to bring about the end of morally superior people by the exertion of force. Power without wisdom has never been a blessing.

@utkarshsingh7787 3 года назад

@@prairiewolfo9274 well, most of the capitalist world is running on psychological hacks developed recently. So, you might not "want" to call it science, but seemingly, Heisenberg's uncertainty applies more to this field.

@bass777chick 7 лет назад

So freaking excited for this!!! I'm considering going back to college to study psychology, and I'm sure watching this channel will help with my decision-making. :) And even if I don't, this will still be super interesting! Thank you Hank + SciShow Psych team, for making this channel happen!

@mmgheys 2 года назад

I was tired of claims in a self-help book that didn't have any reasons behind them, so I searched and I found this. I'm so happy that finally, I found a source for getting to know more about the brain.

@nadaqueocultar 7 лет назад

I couldn't be more excited about this. My new favourite youtube channel.

@blueflame3298 7 лет назад

Why are we Morbidly curious?

@manolotrlolo 7 лет назад

Blue Flame A Vsauce fan in the wild, quick, catch it

@ViniSocramSaint 7 лет назад

Actually...3

@PrayerSoldiers 3 года назад

Good question. What do you think?

@S8tan7 7 лет назад

"I hope you'll join us" You know what Hank? I think I will

@haneenalattar006 7 лет назад

Im so excited for this channel! And I am thinking of majoring in psychology

@Robynsonfire 7 лет назад

I'm so excited for this channel!

@ihatoon014 7 лет назад

Thank you!

@nostalgia9338 2 года назад

The answer is No. This is why students regret studying Psychology because it’s all theoretical and subjective no matter how hard this “science” tries to prove otherwise.

@joshdandum3277 7 лет назад

studying psychology in college. Super excited to watch the videos on this channel!

@bialacttea 7 лет назад

I'm so excited for this. Good video Hank!

@sarah-cz3uj 6 лет назад

Wow i didnt know that happiness can be mesured by the amount of lughing...who says a person who laughs more is acutually happier?maybe he is even so sad..this is so Imprecise,actually we dont have a tool for measurnent of things in psy cuz its SUBJECTIVE...and its so important...this is one of the resons I say psy is not a sciense...

@rhandomcommenter9550 3 года назад

Who says that counting the amount of laughing is the only way to measure happiness? 3:10

@timhow 7 лет назад

This is my first year doing psychology, and I'm so glad this channel exists to aid me in it

@chiragsharma5624 Год назад

read phylosphy insted

@lauracronbungusman1582 7 лет назад

Im very excited about whats yet to come on this channel!

@lily14130 7 лет назад

Yay! So many new awesome things coming out... new Crash Courses, new SciShow channel... :D

@chikiwiki64 7 лет назад

Ooh, do one on how reverse psychology works! Why do some people do the exact opposite of what they're told to do, despite usually being talked to by someone with more experience than them in that particular topic?

@NickolaySheitanov Год назад

Depends on the person thats why psychology is pseudoscience it cant be quantified people have 1billion reasons for what they do each time. Some people have abusive parents that didnt let them do anything in life so thats their way to rebel and get their feedom back. Others are just crazy lmao depends on the person. Or it could be that they just dont know any better. Or it could be that they do know a lot who tf knows ask them everyone is different.

@sofialopez4205 5 лет назад

You helped me with my ethics and NOW PSYCHOLOGY I don’t deserve this 😂😂🙏

@andreherrmannofficial 5 месяцев назад

A video about why psychology is a science, full of facts why psychology can never be a science. Good job!

@alexchan6303 7 лет назад

So glad this channel now exists

@helpdesk9535 Год назад

Defining behavioral patterns is not science. Neurologists would confirm till this day that we still have no ideea how our brains work. Strongest argument!

@Psychedlia98 11 месяцев назад

damn, you just single handedly defeated a field of science, congrats my guy.

@mattscatterty 7 лет назад

I can't wait for SciShow to science the shit out of psychology ;)

@vanomisoo2492 7 лет назад

thank you for amazing content!!

@lauracronbungusman1582 7 лет назад

I would love to see a series about deviant disorders. People love to learn about disorders like Dissociative Identity Disorder or Catatonic Schizophrenia. Its very interesting and i think it could really bring in people's attention who are new to you, Hank.

@symbolxchannel 7 лет назад

Like alchemy and chemistry, psychology has two facets: the [semi-religious] unscientific one and the scientific one. It simply happens that psychology don't have different names to differentiate them.

@FM-dm8xj Год назад

no not like chemistry kid.

@Psychedlia98 11 месяцев назад

not yet, but we are getting there, we need to get rid of psychoanalysis and focus more on cognitive, behavioral, neuropsych and so on.

@HayleyHarp 7 лет назад

Thank you for making this!! As a psychology major, I took so many neuroscience/anatomy focused classes to learn how the brain works and literally 2 years of learning statistical analysis and how to conduct research. I would argue that there are a few different ways you can study psychology, based on the courses you choose and the career you pursue, that would make it maybe more or less of a hard science vs. a social science. However, all of it is still science. It's nice to hear the validation from someone else haha!

@Soldierboy54b 6 лет назад

+Hayley Harp....Psychology & sociology is for girls with "science envy."

@reds7vn644 6 лет назад

Hayley Harp Psychology is pure and 100 percent BS... A team of 270 scientists tried reproducing 100 psychology and social science studies that had been published in three top peer-reviewed U.S. journals in 2008. Just 39 percent came out with same results as the initial reports, said the findings in the journal Science. This is why you can go to one psychiatrist or psychologist and get a diagnosis and then turn around and go to a completely different one and get a different diagnosis and then turn around and do the same thing with another one and get a different diagnosis yet again. They're never going to come back and say the same thing all three. I'm actually done this same story same emotion same Expressions body language, and in six instances I got six different diagnosis. I did this over the span of a month with military psychiatrist and VA psychiatrist. It's all opinion that's all it is nothing more they sit there they listen they observe and they say you do this because of this and well you have these feelings are these emotions or outbursts because of this. In reality they have no clue and just SWAG it. For those of you that don't know what SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. But what they all have in common is their pill-pushers medicaid medicaid medicaid is there matra.

@parsen2685 6 лет назад

RED S7VN LOL I saw the same comment again from you. Why are you such a try hard with this? You’re humiliating yourself dude. You haven’t even stated a counter argument to what I’ve said during your last comment, and here you are again with your brainless copy pastes.

@reds7vn644 6 лет назад

Erosen Sendo You do realize I made those blanket comments on the same day??? You're actually the one who can't make an argument past environment. So much so that now you're nitpicking and name calling. Basically grasping at straws in an attempt to discredit me. This isn't 3rd grade, grow up.

@parsen2685 6 лет назад

RED S7VN yeah right lol... perhaps I didn’t present my cases last time to look like arguments because I was too kind not to be too aggressive with my response. What I’m trying to say is you have an issue with one field in psyhology, yet you’re generalizing it to all. If you are gonna be so keen in critiquing atleast be specific which field and don’t generalize. Very simple. Also I’ve read te article you were always citing. Their conclusion to the results was that those psychological fields need to revamp their research procedures and to reconceptualize, but here you are exagerating it and claiming that they did debunk the fields 100%. If anything, your overgeneralizing may prove you to be the third grader between us.

@RainxOnxMex 7 лет назад

Can't wait for more videos guys!

@stanleyklein524 5 лет назад

Necessity is not equivalent to sufficiency (re the method canard). Oh the humanity.

@Nicolas-wd5ec 5 лет назад

3:12 is a screen that perfectly shows the problem. Only the third option would be at all relevant or scientifically interesting, and still... is an endorphin the lone marker or indicator of a person's happiness? Are there other neurochemicals involved, (like dopamine, etc...) and how do they interact? And is this a measurement of momentary happiness or overall happiness? The questions go on... The other two options are just... risible.

@Nicolas-wd5ec 5 лет назад

Even the physical sciences weren't always as "rigorous" as they are today. The Galilean revolution changed all the natural sciences - turning them from pseudosciences into actual sciences. Similar event still hasn't happened in the social "sciences."

@erinpineapples1743 7 лет назад

It's hilarious to me that this is a 5 minute video because I literally had an entire class on this question. Though to be fair, we went super in-depth and back to basics, having to define "what is science" and also "what is psychology". Speaking of which, "what is psychology" would be a super interesting topic for a video. And even after however many hours, the conclusion we mostly came to was a shrug and a "kind of" (mostly due to the difficulty of defining what "psychology" is in a way that separates it from any of the other scientific disciplines).

@sully42682 7 лет назад

I have to take a psychology course over my summer 'break'. I will definitely be taking advantage of this channel before then.

@Cluless02 5 лет назад

Excellent video - well done mate!!

@itsjustbree9267 5 лет назад

But Hank, it makes us feel good about ourselves to say that whatever non-psychology science we happen to be studying is real science and that psychology isn't. It makes us feel smart. We need to feel like we're better than someone to feel good about ourselves. Don't take that away from us. XD

@SleepDaMouse-xd8dn 4 года назад

He didn’t. He proved nothing

@Sean-qo9yu 2 года назад

So Conclusion? Psychology is not a science…

@pastelab 7 лет назад

We are *psyched* to learn more!

@TheMasonX23 7 лет назад

Yes! It's about time! So glad I voted for this, can't wait to see what you guys post here :)

@darkgalaxy5548 Год назад

So if your field can't easily be defined as science, the solution is to change the definition of science. And that's why we can say, musicology is definitely a science.

@kenzoilstrikesback1164 7 лет назад

You are going to find that the current state of psychology is less "science" based than you think. Research and experimentation are rarely replicated. Conclusions are spurious statements that loosely relate to the evidence provided in the research. The field is riddled with low effort meta-analysis based on research done decades ago. For a field that requires the utmost rigor in research and repetition of these experiments to find the current state of our knowledge of human behavior, it is lacking considerably. I wish most research papers state what they do know and what they don't know. To often then not, they makes claims about what they don't know yet.

@ericbarnes8 7 лет назад

I'm stoked! I hope this channel takes off

@Kalkiara 7 лет назад

So excited for this!

@drmichael82 7 лет назад

whst about the lack of replicability of results?

@sarah-cz3uj 6 лет назад

Mike Zalez actually yes youre right

@stanleyklein524 5 лет назад

No theory (in any rationally acceptable sense) means no theory to replicate. Psychologists attempt, therefore, to replicate tokens. Pathetic.@@sarah-cz3uj

@jimzakany3900 5 лет назад

That's a function of there being no laws and principles in psychology. It doesn't fit the definition of a science as it's presented at the beginning of the video. There is no paradigm upon which psychology rests, and it fails to predict and replicate behaviors based on any first principles.

@MoonlightDusk 5 лет назад

@@jimzakany3900 But people have to acknowledge the mental aspect because it ensues health problems despite physical conditions scientifically in the clear.

@zakany 5 лет назад

@@MoonlightDusk what does that have to do with my point? Can you state the Laws of Psychology? What are the fundamental principles of psychology?

@m7trf07 7 лет назад

i really have high expectation from you don't disappoint me

@m7trf07 7 лет назад

***** that's what i hope

@aaminahasan6270 7 лет назад

I CANNOT WAIT. Can I just binge watch already?

@jimkujur 3 года назад

Did you?

@aquamarine3699 7 лет назад

Super interested in psychology and cognitive science and this series was first uploaded on my bday! It was meant to be

@MrKkbeau 7 лет назад

I'm very excited for this!! I'm a medical student interested in psychiatry or neurology, and in undergrad it always bothered me that psychology classes were not in the college of natural sciences?? They were part of the liberal arts school, and all the psych classes were reserved for psych majors except for intro psych, so as a neurobio major I was not permitted to take many psych classes, which was very frustrating.

@LucianoVeryNiceHi Год назад

because it is not a science hahha why else would it be omitted

@Psychedlia98 11 месяцев назад

@@LucianoVeryNiceHi yet the majority of the scientific community says otherwise, but i guess your ideology doens't allow that. have fun with your religious understanding of science.

@LucianoVeryNiceHi 11 месяцев назад

@@Psychedlia98 lol your poor ad hominem attempts at insult won't help us pretend that your quak is a science. it is just a pragmatically denied relevance, nothing religious about it, just logical.

@Euphorion 9 месяцев назад

im also a med student god i hope you wont become an actual doctor jfc

@user-nb3mq3cg8k 4 месяца назад

Psychology is diverse because mind is both interpreted in literatures and Philosophy before it became a rigorous Science that actually trying to explain mental phenomena.

@animemangaluv13 7 лет назад

AS A PSYCH MAJOR I'M SO EXCITED

@Amanda-wk9kk 7 лет назад

As a person clinically diagnosed with bipolar in 2010 thank you for making this channel. I had a discussion just the other day on very similar subjects with a person who belongs to a certain religious group who does not believe in psychology at all and thinks it is a scam. She was disappointed about the medication prescribed by my doctor and thought it was wrong that my doctor recommended I apply for disability. Well this threw me into a full blown panic attack and I tried my best to explain to her that while I respect her religious views I am going to do what I think is best for me. I have a Bachelors degree in Veterinary Technology and anatomy is my favorite subject and I explained to her that when I assist in surgery and I can see how things work I always feel better, the same goes for Psychology. I take an anti-seizure medication that treats my Bipolar by balancing out the same chemicals it balances out to stop seizures. It's not made up science, it is all in the chemicals. Also many people with Bipolar have a smaller or damaged pre-frontal cortex which is where emotions are processed so it makes sense. She blew me off asking for more proof and gave me a pamphlet to read. She is lucky I'm somewhat stable and on meds, if she had tried this on someone else something bad cold have happened. She is somewhat of a friend of mine and I always try to respect other people's views but she just wouldn't stop. I just keep telling myself that things will be ok. Science will prevail! I hope you dedicate a video specifically to Bipolar.

@panchillo05 7 лет назад

Thank you so much for your time and sharing your knowledge

@sketchingwithemy9900 7 лет назад

QQ: I have herd many people say that people who are alike tend to not get along well is this true?

@BLooDCoMPleX 7 лет назад

Congrats on the new channel. Anything that destroys pseudo-science bullshit is fine in my book.

@Tomyb15 7 лет назад

I'm psyched! Also please do a video on how much do Freudian ideas stand up to date and how much doesn't. Because some of them sound like pretty wild guesses to my limited knowledge of psychology.

@lostthepirate6311 7 лет назад

Ciroluiro Freud is... still respected as someone who served as a catalyst to the field of Psychology, but (in my experience) very few still give his theories much weight. On the first day of one of my elective psych courses, the instructor mentioned the importance of "our good ol' Uncle Freud" to the syllabus and I dropped the course *that day*.

@BumpyBurrito 7 лет назад

I'm so pumped for this.

@VideoPerfection 7 лет назад

We are the first fans ever! Remember us when you reach 1 million.

@smite6918 6 лет назад

Video Perfection the fact that they haven’t reached 1 million yet is very disturbing

@SteepDescent 7 лет назад

I like the dig at the end: "hard evidence", because he knows that psychology isn't a hard science.

@prairiewolfo9274 4 года назад

SteepDescent A shrink said to me, "All religion is superstitious rubbish, meant for the ignorant and cowardly." I asked what psychology is and he said, "Observing patients' reactions to certain situations so you can trick them into doing what you want." I said religion meant observing the universe so that you can find out how it works, where it came from and where it is going; but he said that this was science. Since he'd excluded himself from a situation that entails a consequence (good or bad) for every act, he'd inadvertently excluded psychology from the realm of science. Psychology can't gain the status of a science while psychologists hold tenets like, "I don't count;" or, "Equations such as x^2+1=0 are unsolvable.

@db1416 4 года назад

@@prairiewolfo9274 except religion just claims it doesnt prove anything,just saying god did it doesnt explain how he did it or that he did it in the first place.

@prairiewolfo9274 4 года назад

DarkBoy 141 If God is defined as the source (creator) of the universe, as Leibniz had it, then it is axiomatic that He did it and this requires no further proof. How He did it would become the subject of one's own considerations. Psychologists are cynically dismissive of religion and so miss the precept that effort comes before result. Any fool can see that Noah's ark is scientifically impossible, but they would rather use this as a reason to disregard the moral inconvenience of religion than do the hard work of sitting down and working out an interpretation that is both possible and highly likely. Quite a few problems in mathematics are only solved on the basis of probability, but if you insist on 0.999 as your probability goal you are all but dealing in fact. Seen from this point of view, none of the real sciences contradict religion; a little effort can reconcile every aspect of religion with modern discoveries. God wouldn't be much of a friend or benefactor if He insisted we should put the blood of a sacrificial lamb on the front door during an epidemic when a modern vaccine exists. In the scientific age, God can be the light that guides the thinking and research of the innovators. Psychologists are welcome to keep their immoral darkness.

@db1416 4 года назад

@@prairiewolfo9274 First of all,not all psychologists think like this. Second,no science doesnt necessarily contradict the god concept,but it does contradict the bible,logical thinking contradicts the bible.The fact that you have to perform mental gymnastics to make the bible work in the modern age,is evidence to suggest it wasnt divinely inspired.You can of course believe in any god you like and be a scientists,if your research stands up to scrutiny,good job and glad to have you.I just dont see why i should be a deist since a deistic god cannot be proven and i have no requirement to believe it,unlike newtonian phyisics,special relativity,evolution etc.

@TheZerovirus1000 7 лет назад

I'm so excited for this!

@JaxsonGalaxy 7 лет назад

I'm super psyched to be here!

@PTNLemay 7 лет назад

I think one of the strongest (though incomplete) counter-arguments to psychological study as a science is that, the more you try and create a controlled and replicable environment in which to perform the experiments, the more people will change their behavior due to the extreme isolation or unusual circumstances they've been placed in. If you put a person in a sound-proof tank with no outside influences they're going to be weirded out and tune their behavior heavily until they are outside and more at ease. But once they are back in the outside world, then they are once against susceptible to all manner of distractions which will fudge the results. That being said, I don't think that means psychology isn't a science. I just think it means we don't yet have biometrics that are powerful enough (and discrete enough) to truly observe people like that in a rigorous manner. The science exists, it's just all that harder to reach.

@steamcleana_6918 7 лет назад

Cool shirt hank

@KatrinaEames 7 лет назад

Oh man - that intro is amazing and beautiful.

@ayeansh Год назад

Just came across this playlist and channel, didnt expect to find Hank here haha.

@user678_oo5 7 лет назад

i was psyched when they announced this new channel because im really into psychology and also studying neuroscience in uni. i just wish he doesn't talk as fast as he does lmaooo

@stanleyklein524 5 лет назад

Neuroscience typically is not psychology. It is 2nd tier neuroanatomy (at best).

@gibbsm 4 года назад

Neuroscience is a real science, psychology isn't, it's a social science that borrows things from 'hard' science.

@AbCDef-zs6uj 5 лет назад

Perhaps a more interesting question is whether computer science is actually a science. Like mathematics, it's based more around deductive reasoning than empirical observation. And like engineering, there's a lot more "creating solutions to problems" than "discovering truths about the natural world".

@erical1808 4 года назад

As somebody going into computer science, I don't consider it a science. Personally I see it as applied math. Computer science is fundamentally based upon branches of mathematics such as discrete math, linear algebra, boolean algebra, graph theory, combinatorics, and others. Whereas for engineering, it's essentially an applied science because it uses our knowledge in physics, chemistry, and biology to solve problems.

@Blindblondephd 7 лет назад

Personality psychologist here--great episode! :)

@_aidid 5 лет назад

Psychology is absolutely a field of science. Those, who do not accept this, are unaware of it properly.

@Richensmom 6 лет назад

As a Psychology student I love your Crash course videos (Visual learner) I am sure these are equally good. In fact I loved your chemistry videos on foods as well and was surprised at the wide variety of topics offered. But I digress. This argument is why many college Psych depts. are changing the name to "Department of psychological science's." "Psychology studies a full range of human and non human behavior with the techniques of science..applications derived from this knowledge are scientifically based." (Stanovich 2013: How to think Straight about Psychology). It amazes me how many people argue its scientific basis but then look at the erroneous betrayals in movie, and self help books. The main source of faulty insight into the field unless you take a psych course.

@markplimsoll Год назад

@drellick1479 7 лет назад

Thank you Hank!!! At my university it is considered under the arts programs. So hearing someone agree with my assertion that it is a science is very nice.

@DoorSCARF 7 лет назад

maths is a Bachelor of Arts too apparently...

@sasanmers9529 Год назад

I would say psychology is a combination of philosophy and science. I also think psychology is limited because there are many variables in the brain that we cannot get access to. They are hidden and cannot undergo the scientific method in order to formulate a justified conclusion like the science of physics, chemistry, or biology. What is more, it can sometimes lead to pseudoscience much easier than the 3 branches of science that I mentioned above. Perhaps, as science gets narrowed down to small branches, it would be that the chances to explain a natural phenomenon through scientific approach seems to be analyzed more easily than to only use a branch of science as a whole for the same reason.

@barbellbilly 7 лет назад

Thank you for making this show =]

@9rumpole 7 лет назад

YES IT IS A BLOODY SCIENCE! 2nd year psych student

@9rumpole 7 лет назад

I just love that Scishow psych liked that ^ hoping this will help with my course haha

@ErisofSpace 7 лет назад

I'm a physics major and love to annoy students of the "softer" sciences, but yeah, Psych is a science (even if you might get away with less math) Good luck with your studies!

@9rumpole 7 лет назад

trust me... there's lots of math involved, mostly statistics though

@frankschneider6156 7 лет назад

+Harry Davis Yes some parts of it indeed qualify as scientific and are pretty hard, but a significant amount of the papers written (more than in comparable "hard" sciences) are junk science of people not understanding that a correlation in sample size of 5 doesn't say anything.

@9rumpole 7 лет назад

I do not think any paper with a sample size of just 5 would receive any academic backing, the process of writing dissertations/thesis' are much the same among the social sciences and the natural sciences I believe.

@R4mzyCoZa 7 лет назад

0:04 For a moment there I thought Hank had tricked me...

@greensteve9307 7 лет назад

Oh I missed the start! Already have 7 episodes to catch up on!

@lilimarlene7813 7 лет назад

My beginning psychology students (college) often confuse the discipline of Psychology with psychotherapy. They've been believing the myths that all psychologists do therapy, 'analyze' everybody and care about their problems.

@lostthepirate6311 7 лет назад

Lili Marlene Yes! Clinical Psychology is just one potential focus of study, and the Freudian model is... to put it politely, rather out of fashion. It feels like so many people conflate the study of Psychology with therapeutic professions, and while there might be a lot of overlap, they are NOT the same.

@sophias8263 7 лет назад

This is amazing. I study psychology at university and I'm constantly having to validate my degree as a science! Incidentally this show is a great way for me to just go over some modules that I'm taking, so that's pretty cool. Thanks SciShow Psych team!

@gibbsm 4 года назад

You should, it's all verbal based and pretty much guess work.

@sr.mental5876 Год назад

Psychology is not a science. It has value but truly it is not a scientific endeavour.

@elliesmile8939 7 лет назад

Great video! I'm so excited! it also has come at a great time, cause I'm doing a project on mental illness and a part of it consists in debunking myths and spreading awarness, so people don't come out with things like "I'm a little OCD" back to the video. I was looking at uni courses the other day and most of them consider psychology a science, but others classify it as a social science such as economy, politics etc. I really enjoyed the video, and I find psychology fascinating so I can't wait for more. But now I ask myself: what about maths? is maths a science? a while back there was a huge fight on this in the comments of a video, so please give your opinion nicely and don't fight!

@mahdizamani537 4 месяца назад

"After observing patterns in human behavior, psychologists usually develope specific, testable hypothesis about why that behavior happens" Meanwhile: "Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche. Jung's theory states that the anima and animus are the two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind, as opposed to the theriomorphic and inferior function of the shadow archetypes. He believed they are the abstract symbol sets that formulate the archetype of the Self."

@katyjans95 7 лет назад

Thank you. I will be receiving my Bachelor's of Science in Psychology this May and I get this all of the time. I was once told by a professor, "I find it funny that people call psychology, anthology, and many other sciences 'soft sciences' when really they are some of the hardest things to test."

@lostthepirate6311 7 лет назад

Katy Janssen +

@Krrypton 6 лет назад

They call them "soft" sciences because their methodology and objectivity are, as a rule, lax or lacking.

@reds7vn644 6 лет назад

Katy Wayant Psychology is pure and 100 percent BS... A team of 270 scientists tried reproducing 100 psychology and social science studies that had been published in three top peer-reviewed U.S. journals in 2008. Just 39 percent came out with same results as the initial reports, said the findings in the journal Science. This is why you can go to one psychiatrist or psychologist and get a diagnosis and then turn around and go to a completely different one and get a different diagnosis and then turn around and do the same thing with another one and get a different diagnosis yet again. They're never going to come back and say the same thing all three. I'm actually done this same story same emotion same Expressions body language, and in six instances I got six different diagnosis. I did this over the span of a month with military psychiatrist and VA psychiatrist. It's all opinion that's all it is nothing more they sit there they listen they observe and they say you do this because of this and well you have these feelings are these emotions or outbursts because of this. In reality they have no clue and just SWAG it. For those of you that don't know what SWAG is Scientific Wild Ass Guess. But what they all have in common is their pill-pushers medicate medicate medicate is there matra.

@parsen2685 6 лет назад

RED S7VN so the mental health professionals who you visited had different diagnoses and explanations? Different psyhologists/psychiatrists have different schools of thought, so your problem really isn’t a big issue. It’s quite common. Stick to one that helps you the most. Don’t mind the diffences, mind the outcomes they give you and which is the best suited for you.

@reds7vn644 6 лет назад

Erosen Sendo If it were an actual science the diagnosis would be the same. Like cancer or the flu modern medicine is able to diagnose across the board. But mental health is merely a field of opinions, guessing and nothing more.