Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies

Could it be that young people don't like what *passes* as democracy these days and has really nothing democratic to it (choice between bad and worst, concentration of wealth and media ownership, authoritarian crackdowns on freedoms etc)?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

delighted to announce our upcoming symposium entitled "Critical futures: Reimagining psychology for systemic change"

join us in Birmingham in September to explore critical psychology and to collectively reimagine a psychology for social justice! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/critical-f...

By Wagner (1996) 👇

And what about psychologists who think they are doing physics? 😵‍💫

As a student interested in discursive and rhetorical social psychology, I often struggled with the analysis. There were few practical guides on how to do it. Now, exactly 3 years later, we have outlined a pragmatic three-step approach to the critical discursive psychological analysis.

Turning the DSM Against Itself: Diagnosing the Disorders of Western Psychology

A new paper satirically reworks psychiatric nosology, diagnosing colonial behaviors—greed, amnesia, and entitlement—as the true psychological disorders.

By Justin Karter

A fear I have about the current interest in AI is that it risks reifying debates about tech & democracy. Because AI is imagined as a pervasive and omnipotent non-human actor. Very generic questions like "what will AI do to democracy?" risk diverting attention from real issues: the actors behind AI.

btw while I was busy not caring about paradigm wars in and outside social psychology and being generally annoying, I was busy enough to read Fran Cherry's wonderful book 'The Stubborn Particulars of Social Psychology: essays on the research process'
www.radpsynet.org/teaching/fra...

“Experiments are worse than worthless since by breaking up the structure of social action they destroy the phenomena under study.”

Don’t hold back, Rom, tell us what you really think!

So when experimental social psychologists began to diagnose the reasons for the replicability crisis, they ignored the fact that people had been pointing out the problems with experimental social psychology since the early 70s. It was as though this was a newly discovered problem.

For whose sake is this researcher doing research?"
Kouritzin and Nakagawa (2018: 681)

New platform, new space to advertise my study aiming to map critical psychology in the UK 😌
Psychologists! Do you draw on critical approaches to psychology in your work? If so, we would really like to hear from you! 1/3