The Task of Social Psychology Is to Explain Behavior not Just to Observe it

Doliński (2018, this issue) deplores the decline of behavior observation in social psychology since the 1960’s and asks whether (social-) psychology is still a behavioral science. I question both, that there was a decline and that direct behavior observations are essential for a science of behavior....

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Main Author: Wolfgang Stroebe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2018-05-01
Series:Social Psychological Bulletin
Online Access:https://spb.psychopen.eu/article/26131/download/pdf/