Other Careers in Academic Settings
I think it's sad that healthcare workers like psychologists are quitting after all the time they spent in schooling and training.
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- Aug 2025
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As you will read later in the text, Milgram found that nearly two-thirds of his participants were willing to deliver what they believed to be lethal shocks to another person, simply because they were instructed to do so by an authority figure
I find this interesting because I wouldn't think that a normal person could be willing to harm just because an authority figure told them to. In my brain, I just don't believe that I'd be able to watch another person be harmed by me just because someone like my boss told me to do so.
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The approach taken by most evolutionary psychologists is to predict the outcome of a behavior in a particular situation based on evolutionary theory and then to make observations, or conduct experiments, to determine whether the results match the theory.
This reminds me of the rules of hypothesis. You make a prediction, after you conduct an experiment, and then make a claim within the results. This set of rules is just like it.
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It was not until the late 1800s that psychology became accepted as its own academic discipline. Before
I find this information interesting because this switch was so early in history. I also assume that many believed it was a part of philosophy due to its research on behavioral phenomenons.
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