What We Should Expect From Theories in Social Psychology: Truth, Abstraction, Progress, and Applicability As Standards (TAPAS)

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 40-55

  van Lange, Paul A M ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

adversarial collaboration; meta analysis; social psychology; theory construction; theory evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871395393     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868312453088     Document Type: Article

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