Editing Discursive psychology (section)

==Study==
Discursive psychology conducts studies of both naturally occurring and experimentally engineered human interaction that offer new ways of understanding topics in [[Social psychology|social]] and [[cognitive psychology]] such as [[memory]], [[Identity (social science)|identity]] and [[Attitude (psychology)|attitude]]. Although discursive psychology subscribes to a different view of human mentality than is advanced by mainstream psychology, Edwards and Potter's work was originally motivated by their dissatisfaction with how psychology had treated discourse. In many psychological studies, the things people (subjects) say are treated as windows (with varying degrees of opacity) into their minds. Talk is seen as (and, in experimental psychology and protocol analysis, used as) descriptions of people's mental content. In contrast, discursive psychology treats talk as [[social action]]; that is, we say what we do as a means of, and in the course of, doing things in a socially meaningful world. Thus, the questions that it makes sense to ask also change.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=D |last2=Potter |first2=J |title=Discursive Psychology |date=1992 |publisher=Sage |location=London |isbn=978-0-8039-8442-4 }}</ref>