does the societal constraints today that affect human behaviour, such as prejudice, the idea that men shouldn’t portray

Question: does the societal constraints today that affect human behaviour, such as prejudice, the idea that men shouldn't portray emotions, and the cultural differences in behaviour both across the country and the world, affect your ability to conduct psychological research effectively?
- Keywords:
  country,
  human,
  research
Asked by ChloeP on 19 Jun 2023.
- Andra Jones answered on 19 Jun 2023:
  
  I personally find there are a lot of barriers to conducting the type of research I’d like to be able to do. I’m hoping that one day when I’ve gained my PhD and got some credibility as a research that I will be able to do more in depth and exciting research. In particular I find barriers towards conducting research involving children and research that deals with physical differences based upon ethnicity. I find it easier to do wider ranging research, technology these days means research isn’t limited to who you can physically speak to – access to participants is world wide now.
- Ben Ford answered on 20 Jun 2023:
  
  I don’t believe so. There are significant amounts of research on prejudice, dehumanisation, and ingroup/outgroup processes more generally – this continues unimpeded. Emotion research is fascinating and ideas like that are not popular within the subject area. Although, there are interesting ideas around therapeutic approaches that target men specifically because of growing demand for it. And psychology has a long standing problem with theories being developed from very specific samples, but online research (survey-based and experimental) is broadening the horizons….slowly… Put simply, it is the job of the psychologist to question these societal ‘constraints’ and understand them – I have seen no evidence of an inability to conduct worthwhile research
- Chloe Tasker answered on 23 Jun 2023:
  
  These constraints are all still a part of human behaviour, so we also need to understand them and research them! Part of being a good psychologist is making sure your research holds up across different cultures, or seeing whether there are differences in behaviour between different cultures, genders etc.

Question: does the societal constraints today that affect human behaviour, such as prejudice, the idea that men shouldn't portray emotions, and the cultural differences in behaviour both across the country and the world, affect your ability to conduct psychological research effectively?

Comments