Psychology is not just "confirming common sense"When studying psychology, you might sometimes think, "Isn't that obvious?" or ...

What do animal behaviorists—ethologists—mean by the word “behavior?” It turns out that this is a nontrivial question, and one that ethologists have grappled with for some time. Early ethologists like ...

Psychology is not a discipline for reading people's mindsWhen people hear that you are studying psychology, they might ask, ...

Modern science took off during the Enlightenment and changed the world. Science differed from philosophy in that it did not presuppose how nature must be, as the early philosophers tended to do, but ...