Although the lack of conceptual clarity has been observed to be a widespread and
fundamental problem in psychology, conceptual clarification plays a mostly marginal role in …

Quantitative explorations of behaviour, psyche and society are common in psychology. This
requires methods that justify the attribution of results to the measurands (the entities to be …

Twenty-five years after its initial formulation, securitization theory is at a crossroads: attempts
to critically scrutinize its achievements and shortcomings proliferate, concerns about the …

Behaviour (Wiley). There are many more journals that publish theoretical articles but do not
concentrate on philosophical–psychological articles. Journals that have an explicit critical …

Peer review is a core component of scientific practice. Although peer review ideally
improves research and promotes rigor, it also has consequences for what types of research …

A vast body of knowledge on development and correlates of personality dimensions has led
to recommendations on policy implications and interventions. However, we argue that there …

Rating scales are popular methods for generating quantitative data directly by persons
rather than automated technologies. But scholars increasingly challenge their foundations …

In light of psychology's 'theory crisis', multiple authors have argued that adopting
formalization and/or formal modelling would constitute a useful or even necessary step …

Established measurement practices have been criticized from various theoretical
perspectives. The purpose of this article is to argue that quantitative research could be more …

We examined environmental activist behaviour as a function of two different forms of
environmental identity: identification with nature (ie, seeing oneself as part of nature, more …