On the Purposes Served by Psychological Research and its Critics

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 205-212

  Schaller, Mark ^a   Crandall, Christian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

criticism; deduction; falsifiability; hypotheses; tautologies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032363295     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398082007     Document Type: Article

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