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jadedog  ·  2961 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Psychology is bunk

This is an old post that I was led to from another post.

Whether the will power theory is debunked or not may not be answered, but the statement at the end struck me as more positive than the person making it.

    If it’s not much fun for the people whose life’s work has been called into question, neither does it hearten skeptics in the field. “I’m in a dark place,” Inzlicht wrote on his blog earlier this week. “I feel like the ground is moving from underneath me and I no longer know what is real and what is not.”

I've heard it said more than once that a sense of uncertainty is the place of discovery. This attitude might bode more positive for psychology than the idea that everything is concretely understood.