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The Flatland Fallacy: Moving Beyond Low Dimensional Thinking

2017-10-05

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<p>Psychology is a complicated science. It has no general axioms or mathematical proofs, is rarely directly observable, and has the privilege of being the only discipline in which the content under investigation (i.e. human psychological phenomena) are the very tools utilized to conduct this investigation. For these reasons, it is easy to be seduced by the idea that our psychological theories, limited by our cogni...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/zdrfg

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