Psychology is often derided as being a soft non-science, mere common sense glorified, and less consequential than other disciplines in accounting for the order of things.
One common argument holds that the mind—psychology’s chief domain—is but the product of biological brain processes, and therefore secondary or even redundant to them.
A second common critique argues that the facts don’t care if you believe in them, which means that physical reality on some level trumps psychological process.
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