Towards an Ideology-Free, Truly Mechanistic Health Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15515481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernhard Hommel (0000-0003-4731-5125, Shandong Normal University, corresponding author), Christian Beste (0000-0002-2989-9561, Shandong Normal University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 21 |
| Pages | 11126-11126 |
| Publication date | 2021-10-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1661-7827 • E-ISSN: 1660-4601 |
| Publisher | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3390/ijerph182111126 |
| PMID | 34769644 |
| OpenAlex | W3211306622 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 71 |
Efficient transfer of concepts and mechanistic insights from the cognitive to the health sciences and back requires a clear, objective description of the problem that this transfer ought to solve. Unfortunately, however, the actual descriptions are commonly penetrated with, and sometimes even motivated by, cultural norms and preferences, a problem that has colored scientific theorizing about behavioral control-the key concept for many psychological health interventions. We argue that ideologies have clouded our scientific thinking about mental health in two ways: by considering the societal utility of individuals and their behavior a key criterion for distinguishing between healthy and unhealthy people, and by dividing what actually seem to be continuous functions relating psychological and neurocognitive underpinnings to human behavior into binary, discrete categories that are then taken to define clinical phenomena. We suggest letting both traditions go and establish a health psychology that restrains from imposing societal values onto individuals, and then taking the fit between behavior and values to conceptualize unhealthiness. Instead, we promote a health psychology that reconstructs behavior that is considered to be problematic from well-understood mechanistic underpinnings of human behavior
Behavioural sciences · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Epistemology · Health psychology · Ideology · Key (lock · Mental health · Neurocognitive · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychotherapist · Public health · Community Health and Development · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |