>>11437642Psychology works, obviously, I mean, it produces generally useful results in certain contexts and applications. Marketing psychology is a practical field to some degree.
The problem though is that there is no framework of fundamental psychology underlying any of this. Psychologists basically exclusively examine emergent phenomena, but they do so without even a hint of an understanding of the process by which those phenomena emerge.
Seeking some kind of objective truth through psychology is like trying do your taxes without invoking subtraction because you don't know what the fuck an arithmetic operator is.
Even neuroscience, the most grounded and rigorous variety of psychology, lacks the capacity to predictively explain the emergence of human behavior from the structures of the brain.