[Cavernio]

I agree with you Talisman. However, I do understand people who don't call it science though, but only because often psychological research doesn't follow experimental design specifically. These need an experiment, where there's an experimental group and a control group. We both agree with this. However, much of pschology actually doesn't do that. For instance, correlational research. However, correlational research still follows the scientific method, uses statistics, and takes into account that it IS correlational and causality must not be assumed, but its just not the experimental method. And non-experimental methods for psychology is absolutely necessary. People aren't guinea pigs. Furthermore, there's the issue that what is learned in a study isn't what's going to happen in the real world, because of the artificial environment. Non-experimental methods tend to have much more ecological/real world validity than experimental ones.