Is It a Bad Thing to Ask a Lot More Tractable Research Questions?

Social psychologists think that personality psychology is boring, suiosol personality psychologist say it's perfectly fine to have like one tractable question per paper. Clarefalec: "There are really big differences in sort of what's perceived as an interesting question and a novel contribution between personality and social" He says he doesn't mind people asking more circumscribed research questions if they can get through the review process without listing all their assumptions. 'It's easier to study interesting questions if you're more relaxed about your methodology' The author also talks about why some economists dislike his causal inference approach because it's easy to grasp but others don't.