Document Type
Editorial
Publisher
Frontiers Research Foundation
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
23029
Abstract
In a recent paper we (Speelman and McGann) argued that psychology's reliance on data analysis methods that are based on group averages has resulted in a science of group phenomena that may be misleading about the nature of and reasons for individual behavior. The paper highlighted a tension between a science in search of general laws on the one hand, and the individual, variable, and diverse nature of human behavior on the other.
DOI
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01234
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Speelman, C. P., & McGann, M. (2016). Editorial: Challenges to Mean-Based Analysis in Psychology: The Contrast Between Individual People and General Science. Frontiers in Psychology, 7.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01234