You are kindly invited to the seminar entitled as \u201dNomotheticism as a Questionable Epistemological Commitment (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our Crises)\u201d by the Department of Psychology<\/p>\n
Date: 5 December 2025, Friday
\nPlace: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room
\nTime: 12:30<\/p>\n
Title: \u2018Nomotheticism as a Questionable Epistemological Commitment (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our Crises)<\/p>\n
Speaker: S. Adil Sar\u0131bay, Kadir Has University<\/p>\n
Abstract
\nPsychology as a scientific discipline faces crises from replicability to representativeness. Concurrently, there is a strong bias in psychological science towards nomothetic approaches (i.e., variable-oriented designs in search of generalities). Nomotheticism (i.e., overreliance on nomothetic methods) leads to overlooking the unique psychological structures and processes within individuals, resulting in a theory-method gap. Furthermore, some central assumptions in nomothetic methods, such as ergodicity, are often untenable. Nomotheticism may also be partly responsible for the replicability crisis, a hitherto neglected possibility. While idiographic methods offer a clear alternative, they possess their own limitations. Combining idiographic and nomothetic approaches may represent an optimal integration. Recently developed statistical tools make it feasible to implement such a combination in empirical research. These considerations exemplify how engaging with our crises directly provides valuable opportunities for self-correction and growth.<\/p>\n
Short Bio
\nS. Adil Sar\u0131bay received his bachelor\u2019s degree (Psychology) from Middle East Technical University in 2000, his master\u2019s degree (Psychological Sciences, Social Psychology track) from Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University in 2002, and his Ph.D. (Social\/Personality Psychology) from New York University in 2008. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Bremen from 2008 to 2010, and as a visiting faculty member at Charles University in Prague from 2016 to 2017. Between 2010 and 2020, he served as a full-time faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Bo\u011fazi\u00e7i University. He received the Science Academy\u2019s Young Scientists Award in 2018. In the Fall of 2020, he joined the Department of Psychology at Kadir Has University, where he currently works. His research focuses particularly on thinking styles and face perception and morphology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You are kindly invited to the seminar entitled as \u201dNomotheticism as a Questionable Epistemological Commitment (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Our Crises)\u201d by the Department of Psychology Date: 5 December 2025, Friday Place: A-130 FEASS Seminar Room Time: 12:30 Title: \u2018Nomotheticism as a Questionable Epistemological Commitment [\u2026] <\/p>\n