The internal validity obsession.

Behav Brain Sci

Psychology Department and Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Solomon Labs, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/tetlock/bio.

Published: May 2022

AI Article Synopsis

  • Social psychology needs to focus equally on construct and external validity, not just internal validity.
  • This imbalance leads to theories that don’t hold up in real-world situations.
  • As a result, social psychology is less effective in addressing and improving actual social issues.

Article Abstract

Until social psychology devotes as much attention to construct and external validity as it does to internal validity, the field will continue to produce theories that fail to replicate in the field and cannot be used to meliorate social problems.

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