Publications [#254325] of Michael A. Wallach

Journal Articles

1. Wallach, MA; Wallach, L (1998). When Experiments Serve Little Purpose: Misguided Research in Mainstream Psychology. Theory & Psychology, 8(2), 183-194. [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
   (last updated on 2020/03/18)

   Abstract:
   This paper attempts further to explicate and justify the belief, held by a number of critics of mainstream psychology, that much customary empirical research tells one little that could not have been known without it. Apart from questions of tautology or indeterminate relations to observation, many hypotheses are derivable from propositions that are unfalsifiable because they cannot be tested without relying on conceptualizations which imply the propositions themselves. Experiments that serve no purpose beyond the operationalization of such hypotheses are a misguided enterprise. © 1998, Sage Publications. All rights reserved.