Psychology's Status as a Scientific Discipline: Its Empirical Placement Within an Implicit Hierarchy of the Sciences

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-67

  Simonton, Dean Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 1642634118     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2680.8.1.59     Document Type: Review

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