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Idiographic Psychology: From Forms of Inference to Levels of Analysis, and Back Again

2022-07-13

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<p>The terms idiographic and nomothetic have long been used and misused in psychology. The philosopher Windelband defined idiographic as a focus on particulars and nomothetic as a focus on generalities, but contemporary psychology researchers define them as a focus on individual-level vs. group-level analyses, respectively. I briefly review the history of how we came to these new definitions, largely through the w...

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