The field of psychology has a long history of encouraging researchers to disseminate their findings to the broader public. This trend has continued in recent decades in part because of professional psychology organizations reissuing calls to “give psychology away.” This recent wave of calls to give psychology away is different because it has been occurring alongside another movement in the field—the credibility revolution in which psychology has been reckoning with metascientific questions about what exactly psychologists know. This creates a dilemma for the modern psychologist: How is one to “give psychology away” if one is unsure about what is known or what one has to give? In the current article, we discuss strategies for navigating this tension by drawing on insights from the interdisciplinary fields of science communication and persuasion and social influence.

心理学领域长期以来一直鼓励研究人员将他们的发现传播给更广泛的公众。近几十年来，这种趋势一直在持续，部分原因是专业心理学组织重新发出“放弃心理学”的呼吁。最近这一波放弃心理学的呼吁是不同的，因为它与该领域的另一场运动同时发生——心理学一直在思考关于心理学家到底知道什么的元科学问题的可信度革命。这给现代心理学家带来了一个两难的境地：如果一个人不确定已知什么或必须给予什么，如何“放弃心理学”？在当前的文章中，