Echoes from the Past: Meaning in Measures, Environments, and Predictions

Abstract

The elder statesmen of psychology – such as Lewis Petrinovich, Donald Campbell, Samuel Messick, Kurt Lewin, and Paul Meehl – have been instructing on methodology for decades. But psychology seems to have a short memory and an aversion to becoming a cumulative science. the work, the measured effects of in specific environments and with specific populations say that Lewis Petrinovich landed squarely on some of my pet peeves about research in psychology. his treatise I find myself asking, the field no memory? When are we going to learn to build a sound science that is cumulative? There are, however, some glimmers of