Other People’s Podcasts 0048 – Art Of Manliness: Social Psychology Won’t Save Us

In this age of religious blind belief in settled science, TED Talk, and experts the average person is waiting for the psychologists and other credentialed messiahs to save them. Of course the average person is . . . average.

The part in this podcast about the military attempting to help soldiers with PTSD is completely insane. The reason the Army is attempting to help soldiers with PTSD by touching their feelings is because the Army is filled with and run by women. This is one of the many reasons womynz should not be in the military.

When it comes to proposed solutions to life’s problems, whether on an individual or societal scale, the four most commonly used words these days are “According to a study . . . ” This phrase is used by journalists and media outlets; we certainly use it a lot in AoM articles. And it’s used in the rationales that are forwarded for implementing some new program in a school or other institution.

My guest, however, questions whether we really should be lending the research of social psychologists and behavioral scientists so much weight.

His name is Jesse Singal and he’s the author of The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills. Today on the show, Jesse explains how social psychology has come to such prominence in our culture, the role things like TED talks have played in its rise, and yet how the replication crisis calls into question the legitimacy of the field’s growing influence. We discuss why the solutions sometimes offered by behavioral science are both seductive and flawed, and how this dynamic played out in the self-esteem movement of the 1990s. We then discuss if another fad of social science, power posing, actually works, before turning to how the problems of positive psychology are exemplified in a program the military adopted to help soldiers with PTSD. We end our conversation with whether the idea of grit is all it’s cracked up to be, and how ultimately, there are no quick fixes to life’s big problems.

Show Highlights

What caused the rise of social psychology in modern culture?

What is “prime world”?

Why the replication crisis is hurting psychology

What was the premise of the self-esteem movement of the 80s and 90s? Why was the movement so

powerful?

What’s the state of power-posing today?

Are researchers incentivized to publish bold claims?

Are scientists aware of the critiques of their claims? Are they combatting it?

The positive psychology trend

Why psychologists have turned to helping people who are healthy to start with

Social psychology and PTSD

Why is the idea of grit coming under fire?

How the media and popular culture exacerbates social research

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/podcast-697-social-psychology-wont-save-us/

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