Choose (and use) your tools wisely: "Validated" measures and advanced analyses can provide invalid evidence for/against a theory

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA. alisonp@iastate.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Institute for Health, Rutgers University, 112 Paterson St, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
³ Division of Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53295, USA.

Comment

L Alison Phillips et al. J Behav Med. 2017 Apr.

. 2017 Apr;40(2):373-376.

doi: 10.1007/s10865-016-9807-x. Epub 2016 Oct 18.

¹ Department of Psychology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 50011, USA. alisonp@iastate.edu.
² Department of Psychology, Institute for Health, Rutgers University, 112 Paterson St, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, USA.
³ Division of Geriatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 53295, USA.

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