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Date	Process	Result
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The rationale behind the request is: "Would be really great to listen to this summation of popular social science!".

Section sizes

Section size for Psychology (60 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	6,523	6,523
Etymology and definitions	4,453	4,453
History	7,874	53,787
Beginning of experimental psychology	7,965	7,965
Consolidation and funding	18,401	18,401
Women in psychology	29	19,547
1900 - 1949	5,374	5,374
1950-1999	7,009	7,009
2000 - Current	7,135	7,135
Disciplinary organizations	34	9,304
Institutions	4,340	4,340
Boundaries	4,930	4,930
Major schools of thought	31	32,548
Biological	4,858	4,858
Behaviorist	7,667	7,667
Cognitive	5,612	5,612
Social	1,679	1,679
Psychoanalytic	4,792	4,792
Existential-humanistic	7,909	7,909
Themes	14	29,061
Personality	5,595	5,595
Unconscious mind	7,155	7,155
Motivation	4,636	4,636
Development psychology	3,586	3,586
Genes and environment	8,075	8,075
Applications	247	40,334
Psychological testing	8,242	8,242
Mental health care	9,842	9,842
Education	2,255	2,255
Work	4,510	4,510
Military and intelligence	4,663	4,663
Health, well-being, and social change	123	10,575
Social change	884	884
Medical applications	1,797	1,797
Worker health, safety and wellbeing	5,474	5,474
Occupational health psychology	2,297	2,297
Research methods	2,389	21,768
Controlled experiments	4,395	4,395
Other types of studies	3,118	3,118
Direct brain observation/manipulation	4,577	4,577
Computer simulation	932	932
Animal studies	2,345	2,345
Qualitative research	2,330	2,330
Program evaluation	1,682	1,682
Contemporary issues	46	25,378
Metascience	1,998	18,741
Confirmation bias	2,118	2,118
Replication	13,474	13,474
Misuse of statistics	1,151	1,151
WEIRD bias	4,343	4,343
STRANGE bias	685	685
Unscientific mental health training	1,563	1,563
Ethics	1,737	6,766
Humans	2,110	2,110
Other animals	2,919	2,919
References	2,594	5,428
Sources	2,834	2,834
Further reading	4,458	4,458
External links	67	94
Psychology#	27	27
Total	239,902	239,902

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Goals in psychology 2402:FD00:111:1325:7032:CC0:F770:8D08 (talk) 12:24, 23 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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I'd like to add a short paragraph in the WEIRD section about WEIRD research in AI.

The challenges of WEIRD research appears in other research communities too. For example, one of leading venue in exploring Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems’ (ACM FAccT) relies on WEIRD samples. An analysis of a sample of 128 papers published between 2018 and 2022, accounting for 30.8% of the overall proceedings published at FAccT in those years (excluding abstracts, tutorials, and papers without human-subject studies or clear country attribution for the participants) shows that 84% of the analyzed papers were exclusively based on participants from Western countries, particularly exclusively from the U.S. (63%).^[1] 2607:FEA8:539E:5D00:BD21:4A43:1025:9812 (talk) 21:46, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This does not seem to have to do with psychology, but just research bias. Perhaps this could be added to the article ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency as a criticism section and/or added to the section Research#Bias.Richard-of-Earth (talk) 20:52, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

This seems too niche for the Psychology article. I agree with Richard-of-Earth. Zenomonoz (talk) 05:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Septiandri, Ali Akbar; Constantinides, Marios; Tahaei, Mohammad; Quercia, Daniele (12 June 2023). "WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?": 160–171. doi:10.1145/3593013.3593985. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the {{Edit semi-protected}} template. Pinchme123 (talk) 04:17, 9 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Freud

Hi Sxndrx2828, thanks for your edit. I did revert it due to some concerns about putting things in WP:VOICE, e.g. ‘brilliant’. See WP:WORDSTOWATCH and MOS:TONE.

Also, I’m a bit opposed to putting Freud above the ‘Beginnings of experimental psychology’ section. Freud is actually mentioned under the subheading below it ‘Consolidation and funding’. I’m not sure it’s due to have an entire subsection dedicated to Freud, who did not engage in experimental psychology, because he did not test his hypotheses. Zenomonoz (talk) 21:48, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Repetitive paragraph

The first paragraph under "History" (starting with "The ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, China, India, and Persia ...") is repeated four paragraphs further down in the same section. The repetition should be deleted. ThorneHand (talk) 15:26, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) Pyrrho the Skipper (talk) 15:28, 29 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Disambiguation

The disambiguation links are getting to be a little much. Does anyone think we might need a psychology disambiguation page, a single place to put all these links? Jcbutler (talk) 03:07, 16 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Jcbutler (talk) 23:18, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and welcome to the Psychology wikipedia page. What are your plans for the page? Jcbutler (talk) 22:34, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello and welcome to the Psychology wikipedia page. What are your plans for the page? Jcbutler (talk) 22:35, 11 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Septiandri, Ali Akbar; Constantinides, Marios; Tahaei, Mohammad; Quercia, Daniele (12 June 2023). "WEIRD FAccTs: How Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic is FAccT?": 160–171. doi:10.1145/3593013.3593985. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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