WITHDRAWN
Mainstream psychology claims to study "the human mind" or "behavior" as universal properties of isolated individuals.In practice, it systematically strips subjects from their social, economic, and ecological contexts-reducing complex human experiences to decontextualized data points.This paper argues that such isolation is not a mere methodological limitation but an epistemic and ethical failure.By obscuring structural causation, enabling victim-blaming, and exploiting vulnerable populations, psychology perpetuates harm while claiming scientific neutrality.I propose an Embedded Human Framework requiring context-integrated research, community benefit-sharing, and structural analysis-challenging the field to redefine "validity" as alignment with lived reality.
Authors
- Kyle Hyatt
Publication Details
- Published
- 2025-08-16
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/dms7h_v1
- Primary Topic
- Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00