Building better theories.

Curr Biol

All Souls College, University of Oxford, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AL, UK; Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK.

Published: January 2022

In this My word, Press et al. tackle the 'theory crisis' in cognitive science. Using examples of good and not-so-good theoretical practice, they distinguish theories from effects, predictions, hypotheses, typologies, and frameworks in a self-help checklist of seven questions to guide theory construction, evaluation, and testing.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.11.027DOI Listing

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