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Aligning psychological assessment with psychological science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2010

Daniel Cervone
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology (mc 285), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137. dcervone@uic.eduhttp://www.psch.uic.edu/dcervone.asp

Abstract

Network analysis is a promising step forward in efforts to align psychological assessment with explanatory theory in psychological science. The implications of Cramer et al.'s analysis are quite general. Networks analysis may illuminate functional relations not only among observable behaviors that comprise psychological disorders, but among cognitive and affective processes that causally contribute to everyday experience and action.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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