At 04:02 PM 04/24/1999 -0500, Jim Clark wrote:
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I've
>therefore wondered whether we (i.e., psychologists) might not
>find ourselves in the ironic position of being perceived as
>heretics and venturing into inappropriate (i.e., sacred) domains
>by scientific people who, by rights, should be our allies in
>promoting scientific approaches to behavior. That is, we might
>elicit in some substantial number of natural scientists the kinds
>of resistance that natural scientists themselves had to overcome
>in their own early struggles with the larger society (and still
>have to in some domains).
This is an interesting point Jim.
I've notice that their does appear to be more dualistic thinking
among the science faculty at our school.
For example, I can remember one student getting quite
a bit of criticism for his research on Faith and Stress from one of our
highly religous science faculty.
Dawn
Dawn G. Blasko Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Experimental Psychology
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563-1501
phone: 814-898-6081
http://www.pserie.psu.edu/h&ss/psych/blasko.htm
