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. 2025 Aug 13:16:1649683.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1649683. eCollection 2025.

Commentary: The quantitative paradigm and the nature of the human mind. The replication crisis as an epistemological crisis of quantitative psychology in view of the ontic nature of the psyche

Mario S Staller  1 , Swen Koerner  2
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Commentary: The quantitative paradigm and the nature of the human mind. The replication crisis as an epistemological crisis of quantitative psychology in view of the ontic nature of the psyche

Mario S Staller et al. Front Psychol. .
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Keywords: Niklas Luhmann; ontology; psychic systems; reflexivity; replication crisis; self-referential systems; systems theory; theory crisis.

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