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Whether or not they agree Harvard is placing increasing emphasis on hard data, some professors say the whole field of psychology has become more empirical.
However, the rising stars of the department's faculty tend to focus on the "hard" side of the field, which includes bio-psychology, cognitive psychology and animal behavior, professors say. These areas of psychology place a heavy emphasis on original experiments which produce empirical data.
In fact, the increasing emphasis on empiricism among junior faculty members means that the Harvard Psychology Department is back in step with the nation, some professors say.
Nonetheless, professors say they recognize that some students believe the department's emphasis on hard data poses difficulties for some concentrators.
Although Harvard professors say that their emphasis on empirical data reflects a general trend, a scholar at Stanford University disagrees, saying that theoretical research is on the rise. "The field is going less empirical, not more empirical. There's been a flood of work in this area that's largely...