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. 2018 Jan:41:e127.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000626.

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

Ana Gantman  1 , Robin Gomila  1 , Joel E Martinez  1 , J Nathan Matias  1 , Elizabeth Levy Paluck  1 , Jordan Starck  1 , Sherry Wu  1 , Nechumi Yaffe  1
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A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication

Ana Gantman et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan.

Abstract

A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.

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  • Making replication mainstream.
    Zwaan RA, Etz A, Lucas RE, Donnellan MB. Zwaan RA, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Oct 25;41:e120. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001972. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 29065933