Intraceptive psychology divisions grew when threat fell

Evidence

These publication results only partly confirm our hypothesis. We may ask whether psychoanalysis and especially psychotherapy publications are always intraceptive. To develop a more accurate indicator, we analyzed trends in divisional membership in the American Psychological Association (APA), grouping Divisions 12 (clinical), 17 (counseling), 29 (psychotherapy), and 32 (humanistic) as intraceptive and Divisions 3 (experimental), 6 (physiological and comparative), 25 (experimental analysis of behavior), and 21 (applied experimental and engineering) as nonintraceptive. According to the APA Membership Register (APA, 1979–1987) and Directory of the APA (APA, 1978–1988), membership in the intraceptive divisions rose from a yearly mean of 12,295 during the high-threat years to 13,436 during the low-threat years. Membership in the nonintraceptive divisions, however, declined slightly from an average of 4,209 in the high-threat years to 4,183 during the low-threat years. A two-way analysis of variance with type of division and threat level as factors yielded a highly significant Division×Threat Level interaction, F(1, 16)=20.71, p<.001, in support of our hypothesis. (Of course, long-term changes in the structure of the APA itself may somehow have contaminated this analysis.) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 798 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• APA membership shifted toward intraceptive divisions as threat declined #corroborates (0.97) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 798