Underreliance on Mechanistic Models: Comment on Ferguson (2015).
Ferguson (2015) proposed that our overreliance on mechanistic models is responsible for the public's negative view of psychology. On the contrary, I claim that our explanations do not actually explain because they lack mechanism information and that is why the public has a negative view of psycholog...
| Publicado en: | American Psychologist Vol. 71; no. 6; pp. 505 - 507 |
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