Here are the slides from my talk at the PSI Early Graduate Group conference yesterday. The theme of the conference was ‘The Place of Psychology’ so I fashioned a talk entitled ‘The Point of Psychology (And How it Gets Missed)’. You may recall me giving you the abstract for it before.
Huh? What’s that?
Too fast?
Oh, alright then. Try these instead:
The talk was recorded so I’ll get that for you and post or embed it here soon. In the meantime, see what you make of the above.
All the good bits are copyright me. The rest is other people’s fault.
Enjoy!
@b_m_hughes @PSI_EGG The point of #psychology (and how it gets missed). Slavery, dogs and homosexuality, what a way to kick things off!
— Catherine Friend (@PsychFriend) February 28, 2015
Brian Hughes is an academic psychologist and university professor in Galway, Ireland, specialising in stress, health, and the application of psychology to social issues. He writes widely on the psychology of empiricism and of empirically disputable claims, especially as they pertain to science, health, medicine, and politics.
so its pretty dull pretentious and useless stuff even by the standards of the average light bulb?
Thanks for the share ~:-)
#psych What’s the point?