Keywords
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expertise and evidence
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Abstract
The history of psychology can be placed in scenarios apparently outside of field. In order to understand the development of psychology out of laboratory and great characters, this paper studies the means by which the production of psychological knowledge is assembled on society. Is analyzed the production discursive of psychology experts who participated in 2009 in the legal debate on gay adoption in Colombia, describing the way in which psychological evidence is articulated to legal field. Is found that the Corte Constitucional is a scenario that favors and promotes the production of psychological knowledge, and experts built versions of the social order through the evidence.This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights. Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.