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BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES
Volume 45, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X21000340
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- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [452-17-013]
- European Union
- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council
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This article discusses three approaches for evaluating generalizability: falsificationism, confirmationism, and neo-operationalism. The author argues that the proposed neo-operationalism does not work for hypothetical concepts in psychology, as these concepts cannot be reduced to their operationalizations.
Falsificationist and confirmationist approaches provide two well-established ways of evaluating generalizability. Yarkoni rejects both and invents a third approach we call neo-operationalism. His proposal cannot work for the hypothetical concepts psychologists use, because the universe of operationalizations is impossible to define, and hypothetical concepts cannot be reduced to their operationalizations. We conclude that he is wrong in his generalizability-crisis diagnosis.
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