Psychology is a SCIENCE and it's important to emphasize this! Students in undergraduate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) programs often tune out psychology as belonging in STEM, but I can assure you that is not the case. Psychology is the "S" in STEM, and it rightfully deserves to be acknowledged. The research that is collected, whether it comes from a naturalistic setting or a laboratory setting is then analyzed using software such as SPSS. This is how researchers can find correlations of statistical significance. I want students to stop feeling disparaged in the field, and rather embrace the broad field and the many attributions that arise from it.
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Thank you for adding this piece of information to this debate @nibbo. I am beginning to think that I could write a whole series addressing this question!