Critical psychology and psychological experimental research - friends, enemies, or unholy alliance?
Daniil Serko (Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung/ Max Planck Institute for Human Development)

Critical Psychology provides us with a profound critique of experimental psychological research. Experimental paradigms reduce participants to organisms that do not influence the experimental settings surrounding them. Such an approach overlooks an essential aspect of human nature: active engagement with the world and the possibility of changing and shaping it. As a result, psychological experiments are not a valuable means to test psychological theories.

Despite this far-reaching critique, Klaus Holzkamp underlines that experimental and statistical research still have their place in psychological research. This talk provides an overview of the mentioned critique and discusses the possible connections between critical psychology and experimental psychological research.

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Daniil Serko,
M.Sc in Psychologie, studierte Psychologie and der Humboldt Universität Berlin und der University of Glasgow.
Derzeit Doktorand am Max Planck Institut für Bildungsforschung und der Technischen Universität München.