Bringing the Evidence-Based Turn Full Circle: Critical Thinking About Disciplinary Practices
The professions are rapidly evolving into an “evidence-based” world. And yet, there is strangely little accountability about disciplinary practices in psychology. There are likely many reasons for this disparity, including power differentials favoring scientists, a rhetoric of objectivity that clouds over the interpretive and practical demands of the discipline, and the positivist assumption that discrete empirical findings somehow magically put themselves together in a coher