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#895 Naomi de Ruiter - Toward a Process Approach in Psychology: Stepping into Heraclitus' River

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The Pitfalls of Over-Controlling in Scientific Experiments

Randomized controlled trials are valuable for testing efficacy of medicine, but in psychology, over-control can harm scientific understanding by oversimplifying systems and artificially separating cause from effect. By manipulating only one factor, researchers may oversimplify causality and study something artificial that lacks ecological validity and may not be valid in the real world.

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