Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: 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.
Author: Kyle Hyatt
Language: English
Subfield: General Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4413377095