User:Decross6/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Psychology of self

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I chose this article because I am interested in Psychology, and I am in a Psychology program in university. The article matters to me because I plan to become a clinical psychologist, and there needs to be a proper definition of the self. My preliminary impression of the article was that it is well-developed, concise, and has appropriate information.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

---Content Evaluation---

Everything in article appears to be relevant to Psychology and its knowledge on the self. The content in the article applies approaches from Social psychology, and uses theories from many popular psychologists in their fields. There are also critiques of the psychology of the self. Nothing appears to be distracting from the idea of the self in psychology, although, critiques of the self appear to not come from any psychologists, rather from philosophers.

There does appear to be some out-of-date information, such as the critique of the self from Michael Foucault. One thing that can be added is a critique of the critiques, as there appears to only be one-sided critiques. This would allow for an equal representation of both sides.

There does not appear to be any equity gaps. The article does not misrepresent or underrepresent historically marginalized populations.

One major improvement for the article would be a section that indicates the most up-to-date scientific information, and the currently accepted theories of psychology of the self.

---Tone Evaluation---

The article is slightly biased, as the only critiques of the self appear from political activists, sociologists, and philosophers. To create a more balanced approach of criticisms, psychologists need to criticize this concept. For example, the social theorist and sociologist Nikolas Rose suggests that the psychology of the self is a way to advance capitalism and self-exploitation. There does not appear to be any rebuke of these criticisms, which the article lacks. Politically, this article is left-biased.

The underrepresented viewpoint is derived from the criticisms. Viewpoints similar to Michael Foucault are underrepresented, and perhaps it would be a good idea to explain the efficacy of the criticism.

---Sources Evaluation---

From the citations I have checked, they all work. The sources do support the claims made in the article.

The claims I have seen come directly from primary sources, scholarly articles, and academic journals. These sources appear to be neutral and scientific. The bias is not noted.

The sources do come from a diverse array of authors and publications. A large amount of psychology research from research teams and psychologists are noted.

---Checking the talk page---

There are a few conversations behind the scenes, there appears to be a few conversations about overhauling the page, specifying criticisms, and adding citations to criticisms.

The article is rated as a part of WikiProject Psychology.

From the wikipedia sites we have seen in class, this page appears to be more developed and has users involved in it. For example, ANOWA has a lack of content and citations, and less editors working on the page, whereas the Psychology of the self appears to have more users and more development of information.