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Originally Posted by BigBL87
To be fair, psychology really can't provide falsifiability for the most part, which is why it is considered a soft science, but a science none the less.
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That is a misconception. People such as the Neo-Freudians are a fringe group in psychology; today, it is predominantly cognitive-behavioralism moving towards neuro-cognitive-behavioralism, and behavioralism can provide falsifiability because it deals only with observed behaviors. The reason it is considered a soft science is that it a social science even though it is largely supplemented by biology and chemistry. To call it a hard science would be to confuse psychology with biology/chemistry. Though they are combined in neurology.