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The stimulus-response crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2022

Robyn Wilford ,
Juan Ardila-Cifuentes ,
Edward Baggs  and
Michael L. Anderson Open the ORCID record for Michael L. Anderson [Opens in a new window]
Robyn Wilford
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada rwilfor@uwo.ca
Juan Ardila-Cifuentes
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada jardilac@uwo.ca
Edward Baggs
Affiliation:
The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada ebaggs@uwo.ca www.emrglab.org
Michael L. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada jardilac@uwo.ca The Rotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada ebaggs@uwo.ca www.emrglab.org The Brain and Mind Institute, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada. mande54@uwo.ca
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Abstract

Yarkoni correctly recognizes that one reason for psychology's generalizability crisis is the failure to account for variance within experiments. We argue that this problem, and the generalizability crisis broadly, is a necessary consequence of the stimulus-response paradigm widely used in psychology research. We point to another methodology, perturbation experiments, as a remedy that is not vulnerable to the same problems.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 45 , 2022 , e39
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