title: ODD (observation- and description-deprived) psychological research.
abstract: Most psychological research consists of experiments that put people in artificial situations that elicit unnatural behavior whose ecological validity is unknown. Without knowing the psychocultural meaning of experimental situations, we cannot interpret the responses of WEIRD people, let alone people in other cultures. Psychology, like other sciences, needs to be solidly rooted in naturalistic observation and description of people around the world. Theory should be inductively developed and tested against real-world behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. trai1@ucla.edu raitriumphant@gmail.com
authors.forename: Tage S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fiske
mesh_terms: D001525:Behavioral Sciences / Q000379:methods*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D019370:Observation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012106:Research