Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction.
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction.
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10.1177/1745691620974697
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2021-07
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Waldorp LJ
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Robinaugh DJ;Haslbeck JMB;Ryan O;Fried EI;Waldorp LJ
近年来，越来越多的研究人员认为心理学理论正处于危机状态：理论很少以一种表明知识积累的方式发展。Paul Meehl在40多年前就提出了这个问题。然而，在随后的几十年里，情况几乎没有改善。我们的目标是通过重新审视米尔的批评，他提出的解决方案，以及他的解决方案未能有意义地改变心理学理论的地位的原因，为心理学理论开辟一条更好的道路。我们认为，米尔确定了我们的心理学理论的评价严重不足，他提出的解决方案将大大加强理论测试。然而，我们也认为，米尔未能为研究人员提供必要的工具来构建他的方法所需的严格理论。为了推进心理学理论，我们必须为研究人员提供工具，使他们能够更好地生成，评估和发展他们的理论。我们认为，正式的理论提供了这一套急需的工具，装备研究人员的工具，思考，评估理论的解释能力，加强测量，通知理论的发展，并走向心理学理论的协作建设。
In recent years, a growing chorus of researchers have argued that psychological theory is in a state of crisis: theories are rarely developed in a way that indicates an accumulation of knowledge. Paul Meehl raised this very concern more than 40 years ago. Yet, in the ensuing decades, little has improved. We aim to chart a better path forward for psychological theory by revisiting Meehl’s criticisms, his proposed solution, and the reasons his solution failed to meaningfully change the status of psychological theory. We argue that Meehl identified serious shortcomings in our evaluation of psychological theories and that his proposed solution would substantially strengthen theory testing. However, we also argue that Meehl failed to provide researchers with the tools necessary to construct the kinds of rigorous theories his approach required. To advance psychological theory, we must equip researchers with tools that allow them to better generate, evaluate, and develop their theories. We argue that formal theories provide this much needed set of tools, equipping researchers with tools for thinking, evaluating a theory’s capacity to explain, strengthening measurement, informing theory development, and moving toward the collaborative construction of psychological theories.
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