Talk:Association for Psychological Science
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Adding the complete history of the student executive board committee is a bit ridiculous. If it belongs on WP, it should be its own page instead of on the society's main page. I have removed it.
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History of APS
It might be interesting to have a section on the history of APS and it's split from APA. Robertekraut (talk) 21:39, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
- This link might help. http://www.psych.umn.edu/courses/fall07/brunnquelld/psy8542/Session%2012/Dawes%20-Letter%20to%20APA%20Council%20of%20Representatives.pdf APS Observer, vol. 2, no. 1, January 1989, Letter of Robyn M. Dawes to APA Council of Representatives. --Nbauman (talk) 17:13, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
- Here's another one. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/pr030912.cfm Report finds 'no convincing evidence' that psychological debriefing reduces incidence of PTSD --Nbauman (talk) 17:16, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Now we're getting there.
http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/getArticle.cfm?id=2300
APS Observer, Vol. 21, No. 2, February 2008.
Charter Member Memories
Roberto Refinetti:
"At least from my perspective, the major driving force behind the creation of this new psychological association, the American Psychological Society, was the feeling that the American Psychological Association was becoming more and more a professional union and less and less a scientific society. This feeling was probably one reason why the APS membership later voted to rename APS as the Association for Psychological Science -- thus formalizing psychologists' need to reassert the scientific nature of their discipline."
Robyn M. Dawes:
Please, Kick Us Off
I would like to share a story from my very first day as a charter member of APS: It was in Atlanta, Georgia in the fall of 1988 at an APA meeting. I was a member of the APA Council. Some of my colleagues who I admired most on this council were also members of the APA Board of Directors, and after indicating some displeasure with the guild direction of APA, they were treated miserably. I remember in particular the treatment of three female members. (Perhaps I was particularly incensed as a result of some implicit male chauvinism that might still be around.)
There was a motion to kick those of us who had indicated an interest in what was then called ASAP (Association of Scientific and Applied Psychology) off the council. That motion was introduced one morning, and it appeared likely to succeed. I wanted it to succeed. I was in favor of a clear and open break with the society that can encourage such obviously unscientific procedures as recovering repressed memory, use of schlocky projective tests in important legal settings, and so on. But then at the noon break, someone distributed a letter from someone in the American Psychiatric Association indicating that "psychologists were at each other's throats." So we were not kicked off, and the break was a little less clear and public than it might otherwise have been.
Google Books has a generous sampling of this book by Dawes, including a good introduction.
House of cards: psychology and psychotherapy built on myth
By Robyn M. Dawes
http://books.google.com/books?id=J6iq_khf5HkC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
He complains that psychologists are justifying their conclusions with "clinical experience" rather than with good scientific studies.
What exactly was Dawes' position in the APS? He seems to be a founding member. --Nbauman (talk) 17:42, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
Page Updates and Review
I am affiliated with APS and have made edits to this page in order to update the entry. I would like to request and encourage review of the page and welcome any feedback. Apsweaver (talk) 20:42, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
- To be perfectly honest, it comes off as very self-promotional. It's not always overt, but there's lots of fairly trivial information added that seems to only serve the purpose of asserting the association's credibility and validity.
- For example: "A version of his blogs appear on Huffington Post." Anyone can blog on the Huffington Post. Something about being officially paid by them or his relative popularity with its many other bloggers. Also: "A founding principle of the organization is a dedication to supporting the teaching of psychological science." This is a subjective, non-concrete statement.
- Here are some more: "APS publishes several high-impact journals," "[the APA] could no longer adequately meet [the APS's] needs," "whose specialties span the entire spectrum of scientific, applied, and teaching specialties," "meet other distinguished researchers," "Honorees are recognized annually at the APS Convention" (four times), "which publishes concise reviews written by leading experts," amongst others.
- I would read through WP:POV. --71.225.8.219 (talk) 17:15, 9 December 2013 (UTC)