Musings on ecological validity (with a little help from my friends)

ABSTRACT

This essay consists of a series of short cultural-philosophical meditations on psychology and its proper unit of study, an issue of great concern to the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) throughout its decades of work. The Lab’s claim that experimental cognitive psychology is ecologically invalid is juxtaposed to other LCHC conceptual challenges to psychology and the negative impact it has on people’s lives-as-lived, as well as challenges from Vygotsky and Wittgenstein.

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