>>12611554No. To be a science, a field must follow the scientific method. This means they must
>1. Form hypotheses>2. Construct experiments to test the hypotheses>3. Replicate the experiments>4. Predict new phenomenaPsychology (and economics) fails in both 3. and 4. You don't get to selectively choose which portions of the scientific method you follow. That's called pseudoscience.
This doesn't mean psychology is worthless as a field. It's a field of phenomenology, which is anchored in empirical statistics. It's not science, but it is useful.
