Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2020 Jul;15(4):1042-1053. doi: 10.1177/1745691620904775. Epub 2020 May 5.
In current academic psychology, scholars typically develop their research and ideas by drawing on the work of other contemporary and preceding psychological scientists and by following certain conventions of the field. I refer to this variant of psychology as because the emphasis is on connecting various research findings and ideas generated by different scholars (e.g., by showing how they are related to each other via referencing). In this article, I argue that, although connected psychology advances psychological knowledge, it restricts the total amount of knowledge that could eventually be produced and therefore limits the potential of the discipline to improve the understanding of psychological phenomena. As a solution, I propose that, alongside the currently existing connected psychology, psychology should be established. In disconnected psychology, researchers develop their ideas by following the main principles of psychological method, but they are disconnected from a "field" consisting of other psychologists and therefore do not follow the discipline's norms and conventions. By drawing on one of the core constructs from information theory-information entropy-I argue that combining the two streams of psychology would result in the most significant advancement of psychological knowledge.
在当前的学术心理学中，学者通常通过借鉴当代和先前的心理学科学家的工作，并遵循该领域的某些惯例来发展他们的研究和思想。我将这种变体心理学称为连接心理学，因为重点是将不同学者生成的各种研究发现和思想联系起来（例如，通过展示它们如何通过引用相互关联）。在本文中，我认为，尽管连接心理学推进了心理学知识，但它限制了最终可能产生的知识总量，从而限制了该学科提高对心理现象理解的潜力。作为一种解决方案，我建议在当前存在的连接心理学之外，还应建立不连接心理学。在不连接的心理学中，研究人员通过遵循心理学方法的主要原则来发展他们的思想，但他们与由其他心理学家组成的“领域”没有联系，因此不遵循学科的规范和惯例。通过借鉴信息论的核心概念之一——信息熵，我认为将这两种心理学流派结合起来将导致心理学知识的最大进展。
