• Question: how relevant do you think psychology as a subject will be in 100 years?

    Asked by anon-203757 to Vassilis, Tirso, Matthew, Jane, Dawn, Alexandra on 9 Mar 2019.
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      Matthew Longo answered on 9 Mar 2019:

      I think that psychology will always be important as a subject, since our mental lives are at the core of who we are. However, it is very possible that we will see changes in what sorts of things people consider to be psychology. Cross disciplinary research is becoming increasingly important, and its easy to imagine that the boundaries between psychology and related fields such as neuroscience, economics, and education may change or become blurred.

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      Dawn Rose answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      Psychology is really embedded in our loves so I think it will stay relevant. For example, al those ‘other people don’t drop their litter, so why would you’ adverts are based on ‘nudge’ psychology – and loads of stuff about how we use the internet is informed by psychology…and even if we had a catastrophic event that meant we lived differently (like climate change) we would still need psychology to work out new ways to live!

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      Vassilis Sideropoulos answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      Psychology will always be a relevant science, mainly because Psychologists are studying human behaviour and thought and action. For this reason Psychologists will always have to research about something new related to human behaviour – for instance even if we find the cure to all the mental health related disorders and learn how to treat cognitive impairments, we will still need to find better ways of doing things. I think Psychology is like Medicine, they both become irrelevant when there’s not form of life.

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      Alexandra Quigley answered on 13 Mar 2019:

      Completely agree with all of the other answers. Psychology helps people to get over emotional troubles, but it also guides advertisers, medics, business, technology, sports, and soooooo many other arenas of life.

      The science of why people think and behave in the way that they do, and how to influence that, will never be redundant!

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