A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science and its implications for replication. (27th July 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gantman, Ana; Gomila, Robin; Martinez, Joel E.; Matias, J. Nathan; Paluck, Elizabeth Levy; Starck, Jordan; Wu, Sherry; Yaffe, Nechumi
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 41(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-07-27
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18000626
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: A pragmatist philosophy of psychological science offers to the direct replication debate concrete recommendations and novel benefits that are not discussed in Zwaan et al. This philosophy guides our work as field experimentalists interested in behavioral measurement. Furthermore, all psychologists can relate to its ultimate aim set out by William James: to study mental processes that provide explanations for why people behave as they do in the world.