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Postdoc, Methods and Statistics, Utrecht University | Psychology | Dynamic Systems | Time Series | Causal Inference
Mar 25, 2020 12 tweets 5 min read
New pre-print on topic of the theory crisis in ``soft’’ psychology: psyarxiv.com/ugz7y

Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction. With Don Robinaugh, @jonashaslbeck @EikoFried and Lourens Waldorp.

Summary below! 1/ There's a growing consensus that psychological theory is in crisis: theories are rarely developed in a way that indicates knowledge accumulation, and are often absent from research entirely. More than 40 years ago Meehl raised these very same concerns bit.ly/2WGmDyE 2/