The stimulus-response crisis

Behav Brain Sci. 2022 Feb 10:45:e39. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X21000285.

Abstract

Yarkoni correctly recognizes that one reason for psychology's generalizability crisis is the failure to account for variance within experiments. We argue that this problem, and the generalizability crisis broadly, is a necessary consequence of the stimulus-response paradigm widely used in psychology research. We point to another methodology, perturbation experiments, as a remedy that is not vulnerable to the same problems.

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