Goodness has nothing to do with it: Why problem orientation need not make for parochial theory

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27 (3):357-357 (2004)
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Abstract

Social-cognitive psychologists' problem orientation is, in itself, no threat to the generation of normatively neutral general theory. What would put general theory at risk is, rather, the reliance on a valence-balancing explanatory heuristic. Fortunately, social-cognitive research communities have resources to override this heuristic and utilize more epistemically effective cultural tools.

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