There is a trepidation, anxiety, or intuition, which has persisted for more than a century, that psychology theories are less anchored in fundamental laws than physics theories. Rather than attempt to refute the concern, the present work accepts it and tries out candidate explanations. These pertain to empirical laws, parsimony, scope, reductionism, falsifiability, mathematical operations (multiplication vs. addition), internal coherence, ceteris paribus stipulations, and purposeful omission of relevant factors (idealization). The conceptions underlying these explanations are not strictly independent, but they point to different distinctive features that might account for the unequal status of physics and psychological science and to different means of improving contemporary psychology. Although the available evidence for or against these candidate explanations is scarce and relies mainly on a few telling examples, we conclude that the last of our candidate explanations-reliance on idealized universes-works best and leads to the most insights about what psychology might learn from physics and what research strategies might foster the ideal of theory-driven psychological science in the future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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对物理学嫉妒的探索及其对心理学理论需求的影响。


人们有一种恐惧、焦虑或直觉，这种恐惧、焦虑或直觉已经持续了一个多世纪，即心理学理论不像物理学理论那样扎根于基本定律。目前的工作不是试图反驳这种担忧，而是接受它并尝试候选解释。这些涉及经验法则、简约性、范围、还原论、可证伪性、数学运算（乘法与加法）、内部连贯性、其他条件不变的规定以及有目的地省略相关因素（理想化）。这些解释背后的概念并不是严格独立的，但它们指出了可能解释物理学和心理科学不平等地位的不同显着特征，以及改善当代心理学的不同方法。尽管支持或反对这些候选解释的现有证据很少，并且主要依赖于一些有说服力的例子，但我们得出的结论是，我们的最后一个候选解释——依赖理想化宇宙——效果最好，并带来了关于心理学可以从中学到什么的最多见解。物理学以及哪些研究策略可能会促进未来理论驱动的心理科学的理想。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。