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Humans are complicated, but we're also fairly predictable in some respects. Hungry people tend to go get food. The field is about the predictable aspects. We're
by nitwit005 8y ago
Humans are complicated, but we're also fairly predictable in some respects. Hungry people tend to go get food. The field is about the predictable aspects. We're not impossible to study.
Freud believed all sorts of obviously wrong ideas, so the idea that he was somehow immune to this seems a bit odd: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein#Surgery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Eckstein#Surgery
- paganel 8y ago> Hungry people tend to go get food Sure, we tend to want to eat once we're hungry but when we go just a stop above hunger, meaning the desire or non-desire for sexual reproduction, then things get really, really complicated really, really fast. For example just the other day I was reading about a 92-year old guy who was choosing daily sex over him allowing his body to get physically better, while on the other hand we've got asexual 20-year olds from places like Japan who don't really think about sex at all. There's no way for a lab-made psychology experiment to make sense of our libido (or lack of).
- nitwit005 8y agoThat's not disagreement with "The field is about the predictable aspects.". You're just listing something you think can't be predicted.
- paganel 8y agoBut sex is one of the fundamental aspects of the human existence. If psychology cannot say anything meaningful about our sex life then it cannot say anything meaningful about us at all. Yes, it can probably guess when we should purchase or sell some stocks, like people following guys like Kahneman do, but their studies do almost nothing to “illuminate” us on what us humans really are on the inside.
- nitwit005 8y agoExcept, there are actually replicated studies related to sex/attraction.