Addressing the theory crisis in psychology (original) (raw)

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A worrying number of psychological findings are not replicable. Diagnoses of the causes of this "replication crisis," and recommendations to address it, have nearly exclusively focused on methods of data collection, analysis, and reporting. We argue that a further cause of poor replicability is the often weak logical link between theories and their empirical tests. We propose a distinction between discovery-oriented and theory-testing research. In discovery-oriented research, theories do not strongly imply hypotheses by which they can

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26

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5

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1596

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English

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2019-10

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2019-10-23

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1069-9384

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This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in "Psychonomic Bulletin & Review". The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01645-2

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