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Instead of just accepting the misconception of psychology, Gilbert is working to make the discipline more understandable and accessible to a lay audience...
...Gilbert believes “we do a bad job in psychology of making people aware of what we are doing.” Instead of cigars and couches, psychology is about science: challenging hypotheses, doing rigorous research, and collecting hard data. “I would never quibble with the data,” he repeats throughout the interview...
Through his book and articles in media like The New York Times, Forbes, and TIME, Gilbert has been able to start building the bridge between psychology and hard science in the minds of lay readers...
...mails every week saying ‘I didn’t know people did experiments on this kind of stuff. This is really interesting,’” Gilbert says proudly. “There’s a whole lay public out there who thinks that science is about rocks and molecules and atoms and that humanists study things like poetry and love and human relationships. With my book, they are finding out for the first time that there is actually a place where these two things meet, where people take scientific methods and study things...
What Mazza finds particularly impressive as well is that Gilbert has managed to popularize his findings and spread his ideas to everyday people without compromising the science, and the rigor of his research...