In comparing positivism and sensationalism, which tradition is most relevant to contemporary psychology?

-- Marina Bluvshtein (mb_newland@hotmail.com), October 16, 2002

Answers

It depends on how you're using the terms. As I understand them, both schools are long since dead. Sensantionalism is probably "deader," is I may coin such as term. There are vestiges of old positivism in psychology, to be sure, but the term would have to be used so broadly to include modern psychology as to hardly have any meaning.

-- Christopher Green (christo@yorku.ca), October 17, 2002.