There is no crisis of replication and generalizability in psychological science, only misunderstanding or forgetting the fundamental nature of psychological phenomena and resultant implications for empirical testing. Stability-variability is the central feature of every psychological phenomenon, meaning that brain-mind interactions can only create stable patterns from which there will always be deviations. Psychological phenomena are not comparable to COVID-19 vaccines that were very effective (95%) initially for almost everyone for a long time. Replications cannot be the gatekeepers of scientific psychological knowledge, only constructive additions and explorations contributing to theory development and measurement improvement. Once a logically justified and theoretically well-developed hypothesis is presented, the phenomenon exists as long as one of the following conditions is true: (1) it has not been shown logically that the phenomenon cannot exist or (2) it has not been shown empirically that the phenomenon does not exist. Like in physics and other sciences, generalization to theory is critical in psychological science, but less important relative to hypothetical (phantom) populations. Initial COVID-19 vaccines were effective because they worked for the right theoretical reason, the mRNA mechanism. This central principle holds true for psychological phenomena as well, with findings generalizing to the theoretical explanation regarding the presence and manifestations of behaviors brought about by the brain-mind interactions, or stated differently, generalization of psychological phenomena to specific behaviors and under specific conditions as proposed by the theory. Instead of the narrow focus on generalization to hypothetical populations, psychological phenomena and associated generalization could more productively be examined from the nine proposed perspectives. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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心理现象及其测试的科学。


心理科学不存在复制和普遍化的危机，只是误解或忘记了心理现象的基本性质以及由此产生的对经验检验的影响。稳定性-可变性是每种心理现象的核心特征，这意味着大脑与思维的相互作用只能创造稳定的模式，而稳定的模式总是会存在偏差。心理现象无法与 COVID-19 疫苗相比，后者最初在很长一段时间内对几乎所有人都非常有效（95%）。复制不能成为科学心理学知识的守门人，只能是有助于理论发展和测量改进的建设性补充和探索。一旦提出了逻辑上合理且理论上完善的假设，只要满足以下条件之一，该现象就存在：（1）尚未从逻辑上证明该现象不可能存在，或（2）尚未证明该现象经验表明这种现象不存在。与物理学和其他科学一样，理论的概括在心理科学中至关重要，但相对于假设（幻影）群体来说就不那么重要了。最初的 COVID-19 疫苗之所以有效，是因为它们基于正确的理论原因，即 mRNA 机制。这一中心原则也适用于心理现象，其发现概括为关于大脑与心灵相互作用所引起的行为的存在和表现的理论解释，或者换句话说，心理现象对特定行为和在特定条件下的概括为理论提出的。 心理现象和相关的概括可以从提出的九个角度进行更有效的检查，而不是狭隘地关注对假设人群的概括。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。