Operationalization and generalization in experimental psychology: A plea for bold claims

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<p>The rise of scientific psychology has been tied closely to the adoption of experimental techniques in the study of human cognition and behavior. Experiments provide an elegant and rigorous tool to test mechanistic theories and they do so by distilling a theoretically relevant idea into an observable measure as part of a behavioral task – a process commonly dubbed as operationalization. I argue that modern exper...

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10.31234/osf.io/k38y5