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So Useful As A Good Theory? The Practicality Crisis in (Social) Psychological Theory

2020-03-07

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<p>Practicality was a valued attribute of academic psychological theory during its initial decades, but usefulness has since faded in importance to the field. Theories are now evaluated mainly on their ability to account for decontextualized laboratory data and not their ability to help solve societal problems. With laudable exceptions in the clinical, intergroup, and health domains, most psychological theories ha...

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Literature Corpus work: 35a287a4-617c-5f90-aa69-6804ce30c10f
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/h3nwd

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