著者

佐倉 統

出版者

心理学評論刊行会

雑誌

心理学評論 (ISSN:03861058)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.59, no.1, pp.137-141, 2016 (Released:2018-04-13)

参考文献数

27

被引用文献数

1

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Rather poor reliability in reproducibility, i.e., less than 40 or 30% success in replication, has been revealed not only in psychology but also in the life and medical sciences. This has been driven by the strong pressure for privatization and commercialization among the academic fields. However, maintaining high standards in reproducibility is not the only approach to realize actual scientific method. Several examples have suggested the effectiveness of a pluralistic set of methods in ethology, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, primatology, etc. These include qualitative, rather than quantitative approaches, i.e., historical narrative, collecting anecdotes, and anthropomorphism. Methods should be subordinate to the goal of scientific researchers, and not the other way around.