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The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Joshua B. Grubbs Open the ORCID record for Joshua B. Grubbs [Opens in a new window]
Joshua B. Grubbs*
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Department of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403, USA. GrubbsJ@BGSU.edu; www.JoshuaGrubbsPhD.com
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Abstract

Yarkoni has argued that psychology is facing a generalizability crisis, but the real cost of this crisis is obscured by a focus on topics from psychology's most academic subfields. Psychology is also filled with applied subfields, and it is within those subfields – especially clinical science – where the cost of a generalizability crisis will be most severe.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e18
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