After much havering I have settled on Social Psychology as my second discipline (which is where I started).\u00a0 One important reason is that Gemma has lent me a really good textbook!\u00a0 Also it is extremely relevant.\u00a0 I contemplated Film Studies and Ecology because I wanted to try something out of the ordinary – but Film Studies turns out to be a bit of a non-subject and Ecology (although fascinating) was just too hard to relate to my research question.<\/p>\n
Social Psychology seems to resonate in all sorts of ways.<\/p>\n
I am primarily interested in scientists public engagement with science and over the last couple of weeks this has become a bit more precise – how can the scientific community use the web to help non-experts distinguish good science from non-science.<\/em><\/p>\n Social psychology hits because:<\/p>\n 1) Subject matter – it studies (among other things) how people form opinions and attitudes and how they communicate<\/p>\n 2) Methodology – social psychology combines qualitative and quantitative methods in a way I find convincing.\u00a0 In particular it recognises the primacy of the experiment as a method and that\u00a0 with only qualitative data you have ideas but not evidence.<\/p>\n 3) It is an example – it is itself a science which needs undertake public engagement and differentiate science from non-science.\u00a0 In fact it is more prone than most sciences to misinterpretation.<\/p>\n So Social Psychology here we go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After much havering I have settled on Social Psychology as my second discipline (which is where I started).\u00a0 One important reason is that Gemma has lent me a really good textbook!\u00a0 Also it is extremely relevant.\u00a0 I contemplated Film Studies and Ecology because I wanted to try something out of the ordinary – but Film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/comp6044\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}