Title: Why is psychology under social science? - Quora
Headings: Why is psychology under social science?
Why is psychology under social science?
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Content: This is distinct from faith which is belief without knowledge. Once someone has knowledge, they no longer have faith— one is exchanged for the other. They are mutually exclusive. It is why scientists can still be religious — like anyone, faith requires there be no knowledge. Science does not explain what people want to believe— it uses evidence to explain. So, how do we know about something instead of supposing (believing without evidence)? Gather information or data and then analyze it for patterns and characteristics, dutifully putting aside fanciful explanations in favor of what is known. Faith can be any damn thing people want to think up to explain what happens in life going from talking bushes, virgin birth and ghosts to astral planes and gnomes. Psychology is a social science because it is study of what is experienced, by using methods of documentation and analysis of people that are the same as are used in studying other phenomena in the world. Science is as much about process as it is about results.