Ep 41 | UTOKing with Carla Groom | The Problems with a Methods-Based Approach to Psychology

In Episode 41, Gregg welcomes Dr. Carla Groom. She is a "behavioral science pioneer" who works as Deputy Director for the Behavioral Science Unit in the Department of Work and Pensions in the United Kingdom. She received her doctorate in social psychology from Northwestern University, during which she realized there was a serious structural problem with how the methods-based approach to empirical research framed issues in psychological science. She went on to become a leading thinker in policy and organizational decision-making. In this conversation, she recounts her narrative, which includes major policy successes in the UK, and she and Gregg converse about why the empirical, methods based approach to behavioral science is flawed and how an approach grounded in the ontology of human mental behavior mapped by UTOK affords a radically different, and more helpful view.  

--- ℹ️ Find out more about Carla ℹ️ ---
LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/carla-groom-5bb77031
Twitter: https://twitter.com/carla_groom

--- ℹ️ Find out more about Gregg Henriques ℹ️ ---
Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/contributors/gregg-henriques-phd
Medium: https://gregghenriques.medium.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/henriqgx

--- 🌳 The Unified Theory of Knowledge 🌳 ---
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