Wohin steuert die Psychologie?

Wendt, Alexander Nicolai; Funke, Joachim

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“…What is required, is a research culture of theoretical debate and controversy (cf. Wendt & Funke, 2022 ): Theories may not only serve an instrumental purpose or be reducible to models for empirical predictions. Debate culture can be seen as a type of solidarity among scientists who recognize competing positions because they realize that overcoming one’s limitations requires triangulation.…”

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Theoretical psychology: discursive transformations and continuity in Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung

Wendt

Wolfradt

2022

Psychological Research

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Psychological Research (formerly Psychologische Forschung) has been published for a century which makes it a valuable subject matter for historical investigations. The journal’s development bears traces of the progress in psychology. This development is of particular interest for the field of theoretical psychology which investigates the epistemological and methodological background. Our hypothesis is that the history of Psychological Research is indicative for the transformations within the discourse of the discipline, i.e., the general context of communication in psychology. We revisit the changes in the editorial practises of the journal through a scientometric mixed-methods approach, combining bibliometric analyses which compare Psychological Research to Psychological Review and the British Journal of Psychology with a single-case investigation. Regarding form, we find continuities and disruptions in the development of the editorial customs from long and single-author to short and multi-author contributions. Investigating content through word frequency analysis shows that the journal’s history reflects the rise of the cognitivist paradigm as well as a transition from theoretical discourse towards experimentation. The analysis of a single case demonstrates the nature of past theoretical discourse in contrast to contemporary practises. Overall, our findings support the assumption of discursive transformations. From the perspective of theoretical psychology, these transformations can be described as a shift towards Methodism which entails a critical negligence of theory.

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Theoretical psychology: discursive transformations and continuity in Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung

Wendt

Wolfradt

2022

Psychological Research

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“…In what follows, we will show that different conceptions of validity and validity's relation to scientific theory stem from metatheoretical assumptions. These differences concern the structure of scientific theories, the question of psychology's subject matter (Wendt and Funke, 2022;Wendler and Ramminger, 2023), as well as methodological considerations (e.g., whether, and if, to which extent correlations can be indicative for causality and therefore pointing toward validity). Finally, we will show that proponents and critics of the employment of validity converge in their assumption that theorybasedness is at least necessary to ensure the soundness of psychological measurement.…”

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Primacy of theory? Exploring perspectives on validity in conceptual psychometrics

Ramminger,

Jacobs

2024

Front. Psychol.

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Several conceptions of validity have emphasized the contingency of validity on theory. Here we revisit several contributions to the discourse on the concept of validity, which we consider particularly influential or insightful. Despite differences in metatheory, both Cronbach and Meehl’s construct validity, and Borsboom, Mellenbergh and van Heerden’s early concept of validity regard validity as a criterion for successful measurement and thus, as crucial for the soundness of psychological science. Others, such as Borgstede and Eggert, regard recourses to validity as an appeal to an (unscientific) folk psychology. Instead, they advocate theory-based measurement. It will be demonstrated that these divergent positions converge in their view of psychological theory as indispensable for the soundness of psychological measurement. However, the formulation of the concept (and scope) of scientific theory differs across the presented conceptions of validity. These differences can be at least partially attributed to three disparities in metatheoretical and methodological stances. The first concerns the question of the structure of scientific theories. The second concerns the question of psychology’s subject matter. The third regards whether, and if, to which extent, correlations can be indicative of causality and therefore point toward validity. These results indicate that metatheory may help to structure the discourse on the concept of validity by revealing the contingencies the concrete positions rely on.

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Critique of Worldviews

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2024

SpringerBriefs in Psychology

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Wohin steuert die Psychologie?

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Theoretical psychology: discursive transformations and continuity in Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung

Theoretical psychology: discursive transformations and continuity in Psychological Research/Psychologische Forschung

Primacy of theory? Exploring perspectives on validity in conceptual psychometrics

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