The Conceptual, Cunning, and Conclusive Experiment in Psychology

The Conceptual, Cunning, and Conclusive Experiment in Psychology

The ideal experiment in physics must be conceptual, cunning, and conclusive. Adoption of these same standards in psychology has led to experiments that are uninformative and frivolous. We explain why we believe that psychology is fundamentally incompatible with hypothesis-driven theoretical science...

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Veröffentlicht in:Perspectives on psychological science 2022-05, Vol.17 (3), p.852-862
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