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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 4, 454-459 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727600200420
© 1976 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Crucial Experiments and Social Psychological Inquiry

Donelson R. Forsyth

University of Florida

The difficulties in performing a crucial experiment in social psychology are addressed taking philosophical and epistemo logical issues into account. While previous discussions have pro posed that present social psychological theories and methods pre vent such tests, closer analysis indicates that this inability is not unique to social psychology, but is an aspect of any scienti fic inquiry.


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