Is psychological science committing “suicide” by linguistic muddling?

Is psychological science a-cultural?

The history of psychological science, as it has intersected with ethnoracial, cultural, and other marginalized domains of group difference, is replete with disinterest, dismissal, or denigration of these diverse forms of psychological experience. This has led some to wonder whether psychological science is a-cultural, or even anti-cultural in orientation. Assessment of this provocative proposit...

Prior public health agency contacts of individuals committing suicide.

Altruism can evolve when relatedness is low: evidence from bacteria committing suicide upon phage infection.

High relatedness among interacting individuals has generally been considered a precondition for the evolution of altruism. However, kin-selection theory also predicts the evolution of altruism when relatedness is low, as long as the cost of the altruistic act is minor compared with its benefit. Here, we demonstrate evidence for a low-cost altruistic act in bacteria. We investigated Escherichia ...

Phonology is not psychological and speech processing is not linguistic ∗

Experimental evidence about human speech processing and linguistic memory shows that words are not spelled from letter-like units, whether thought of as phones or phonemes. Linguists, like others with a Western education and a lifetime of literacy, identify speech quite automatically with a sequence of letter-sized units. Consonants and vowels seem like directly observable units in speech. Howe...

Characteristics of people committing suicide in Medellín, Colombia.

OBJECTIVES Describing the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of a group of individuals who committed suicide in the city of Medellín between 2000 and 2003; identifying possible groups within the suicides' socio-demographic and clinical characteristics. METHODS The sample consisted of 108 individuals who had committed suicide in Medellín; psychological autopsy was carried out and t...