Byrne's Social Psychology of Sexual Behavior and the Social Behaviorism Approach: Pre-Paradigmatic Separatism
It is suggested that psychology is in a pre-paradigmatic state, divided into separate and isolated sub-fields and theories. Furthermore, there is contemporary disbelief in and suspicion of unified science and unified theory in social psychology as well as in psychology in general. This separatism is seen as an obstacle to scientific development as illustrated in the present case in which Byrne's social psychology of sexual behavior appears to be developing along the lines of social behaviorism, but in a separatistic manner that has disadvantageous effects.