Psychologists seek the unexpected, not the negative, to provoke innovative theory construction

John Darley, Alexander Todorov

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Abstract

Krueger & Funder (K&F) see social psychologists as driven to demonstrate that people's behavior falls below relevant moral and intellectual standards. We suggest that social psychologists search for demonstrations of when it is that people's actual behaviors and decisions deviate from expected or ideal behaviors and decisions, and what these "deviations" tell us about general decision processes, including those that do not produce unexpected actions. Often the discoveries are of positive rather than negative behaviors.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)331-332
Number of pages2
JournalBehavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume27
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2004

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
  • Physiology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience

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