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 and conclude that this erodes the logic behind recent proposals to improve psychological research, such as stricter statistical standards, preregistration and replication. The failure of psychology is not that it is somehow insufficiently scientific, but rather that it is inordinately fond of methods that are a mismatch for the aspirations of researchers in the field, at the expense of valuable empirical research.
2012 ◽
Vol 36
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pp. 131-144
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2015 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 86-99
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2015 ◽
Vol 6
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pp. 56-66
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2017 ◽
Vol 18
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pp. 181-196
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2018 ◽
Vol 3
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pp. 45-55