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APS Observer - Alternative Futures for Our Science (2882 words) |
 | Fine illustrations of this kind were in the program of the present conference, for example in meetings dealing with "social cognitive neuroscience" — and notice that from its title on that it juxtaposes social and cognitive and neuroscience all in one unhyphenated breath. |
| For me, the classic partitioning most unnatural and destructive to the building of a cumulative science of mind and social behavior is the one that traditionally has split the person apart from the situation, treating each as if it were an independent cause of behavior. |
| In such a science, the person and the situation — always the perceived, construed, psychological situation — have to be conceptualized and analyzed in tandem, not artificially partitioned into separate entities or split into different sub-disciplines with separate training programs and missions. |
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