Hey, quick question.

[conuly]

The Association for Psychological Science. Somebody linked to them in the same comment they linked to The Blaze, and since I'm determined to be open-minded and shit I'm not rejecting both links out of hand, just one of them. So... is The Association for Psychological Science reputable, credible, legit? Or is it a right wing organization dedicated to the promotion of shoddy science?

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[nicki]

Looks legit, based on the article abstracts on the website.

Reading the seattle PI article it looks like an offshoot of the APA that's more focused on lab psychology rather than couch psychology, so you may sometimes get some unfortunate evo-psych type explanations, but the data itself is likely to be reasonable.

[conuly]

Evo-psych. Darn, there's something that had the potential to be interesting AND useful, but instead it's all dudebros all the time. It's not even divided into the dudebros camp and the radical matriarchy camp or something fun like that.

[siderea]

I'm under the impression they're legit, but they're a splinter from the APA, and I still don't know what the basis of division was/is, so I don't know their politics.

[conuly]

Wikipedia states that they felt the APA wasn't focusing enough on science. I don't know if that's a reasonable position or not :) I just wanted not to waste time on them if they deserved to be linked to Glenn Beck and his ilk.

[nicki]

there used to be some interesting ideas floating around the more anthropological side of things, but yeah, it got unfortunately co-oped.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

They appear to be legit, and focused on actual science rather than politics.

[conuly]

Good to know. I just wanted some confirmation from people who hopefully had done more than I did (skim the wikipedia article) that they didn't deserved to be linked with Glenn freaking Beck.