Efectos bucle en las categorías psicológicas. Una exploración

This article presents the notion of looping effect, proposed by the philosopher of science Ian Hacking, in order\nto analyze how psychological knowledge, when classifying the activities and people features, modifies the way people\nthink about themselves. This process results in the alteration of what was studied and thus requires of new research. The\neffect establishes a particular mode of interaction between the discipline and its public, which implies specific conditions\nin the production of knowledge about humans. Psychological knowledge is ordered in terms of different human kinds\nand the distinction Hacking introduces between human kinds and natural kinds is discussed, introducing the way the\nhistorian of psychology Kurt Danziger conceives the development of psychological categories. Finally, some guidelines\nare proposed to pursue research in looping effects in psychological knowledge.