{
  "creator": [
    "Garcia-Marques, Leonel",
    "Ferreira, Mário B."
  ],
  "date": [
    "2018-05-29"
  ],
  "description": [
    "Dolinski (2018, this issue) argues that Social Psychology may hardly be considered a science of behaviour anymore, given the rarity of published studies in which the dependent measures involve behaviours other than the completion of surveys, pressing of keys on a computer keyboard, or clicking a mouse. In the present, we comment on this void of empirical studies in which “real” human behaviours are examined to put forward the following points: i) Key-pressing can be a human behaviour as meaningful as any other more complex behaviour (i.e., behavioural complexity is not a good criterion for meaningfulness), ii) Lessons learned from past research in social psychology have shown us that studying “real” behaviour introduces a number of well-known complications, iii) Improvement in the comprehension of human behaviour depends more on a strong theoretical lens constrained by results obtained via rigorous experimentation than on the complexity of people’s observed actions."
  ],
  "format": [
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  ],
  "identifier": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2339",
    "10.5964/spb.v13i2.26076"
  ],
  "language": [
    "eng"
  ],
  "publisher": [
    "PsychOpen GOLD / Leibniz Institut for Psychology (ZPID)"
  ],
  "relation": [
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2339/2339.pdf",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2339/2339.html",
    "https://spb.psychopen.eu/index.php/spb/article/view/2339/2339.xml"
  ],
  "rights": [
    "Copyright (c) 2018 Leonel Garcia-Marques, Mário B. Ferreira",
    "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
  ],
  "source": [
    "Social Psychological Bulletin; Vol. 13 No. 2 (2018); 1-7",
    "2569-653X"
  ],
  "subject": [
    "social psychology",
    "behavioural research",
    "theory construction in psychological science",
    "new experimentalism"
  ],
  "title": [
    "Is Observing Behaviour the Best Way to Understand Behaviour?"
  ],
  "type": [
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/article",
    "info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion"
  ]
}