Online Discussion:
EAHB: What Has
Been Accomplished in our Field and in What Direction are We Going?
James McEwan
The University
of Waikato
01/04/02
I tend to agree with Tom on most points,
but a few responses anyway.
1. An inability to generate a critical
mass of investigators. The EAHB
literature is contributed to by a relatively small number of
laboratories.
2. I sometimes think this is a consequence
of the EAHB being way harder than
folks think. The field is littered with one-hit wonders where
folks have
done the one study/paper and then got enough money together to
go and get
some med gear and some pigeons.
3. Failure to follow through properly on
interesting breakthroughs. EAHB has
a faddish quality.
I think this is true of most of psychology
not just EAHB, but yes it is a
real problem.
It sometimes seems we lack a strong experimental
preparation in which to do
EAHB, we often attempt to solve this problem by looking back
to the animal
preparation but that gives us little more than a heap of headaches
with the
ethics review group.
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