BEHAVIORAL LAWS IN HISTORIES OF PSYCHOLOGY - PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE, METASCIENCE, AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SCIENCE

被引：3

作者：

SIMONTON, DK

机构：

[1] Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis

来源：

PSYCHOLOGICAL INQUIRY | 1995年 / 6卷 / 02期

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D O I：

10.1207/s15327965pli0602_1

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

Histories of psychology frequently include statements that explicitly or implicitly express behavioral laws. Usually these ''meta-historical generalizations'' provide ''covering laws'' for explanatory accounts, contextual frames, or paradoxical contrasts. These abstract propositions come from many sources, vary immensely in scientific validity, and are found in several psychological publications besides histories, including book reviews, obituaries, journal articles, monographs, and trade books. Not only could the authors of these nomothetic claims make better use of empirical results in the metasciences, but these assertions themselves offer an inventory of valuable hypotheses that should inspire future research in the behavioral sciences and especially in the psychology of science.

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页码：89 / 114

页数：26

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