I think although psychology is seen as more prestigious, sociology is actually more useful in application. Ideally social psuchology whic blends the two sciences would be best.

It is not a science, and (appropriately) suffers from an inferiority complex because of it.

Still in it's "Infancy"

From a Math perspective, it's totally cool, and I enjoyed reading tons of it. Is there some degree of nonsense, idiotically composed studies and unethical behavior? Of course. But otherwise it's pretty empirically kosher, reasonable, etc.

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Be more specific. What are your real questions?

I think that cognitive dissonance is a brilliant concept. It's too bad discovering it didn't bring Leon Festinger any lasting satisfaction.

I was both a subject and experimenter in a repeat of the Asch conformity experiment during the 1950s. My father and siblings worked as psychologists, but I work in IT.

There's a lot of news about studies with unreplicable results, & all you have to do is read about studies such as the Rat Park experiment (& its predecessor) to see that bias has always been a factor, but... as more studies are done, with larger data sets, stronger methods & better technology, it will improve.

I don't believe in it at all. It doesn't work, yet people continue pretending that it does.

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