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...

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Published in:	American Psychologist Vol. 71; no. 6; pp. 505 - 507
Main Author:	Tryon, Warren W.
Format:	Article
Published:	American Psychological Association Sep2016
Subjects:	Psychology Pathological psychology Social skills Brain Mathematical models of psychology Neural pathways
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost