title: Aligning psychological assessment with psychological science.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology (mc 285), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607-7137, USA. dcervone@uic.edu
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cervone
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007406:Interview, Psychological; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D012647:Self-Assessment