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A project I’ve been working on a for a long time has just launched: > The Choice Engine is an interactive essay about the psychology, > neuroscience and philosophy of free will. To begin, follow and reply twitter-bot you can navigate an essay about choice, complexity and the nature of our minds. Along the way I argue why the most famous experiment on the neuroscience of free will doesn’t really tell us much, and discuss the wasp which made Darwin lose his faith in a This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. > Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) introductory paper or post > or book explaining what makes for a good theory? For example, how to > construct a good psychological theory, what are key things to > consider?@psforscher Here are most of the recommendations, with their recommender in brackets. I haven’t read these, but wanted to collate them in one “How does it work?” vs. “What are the laws?” Two conceptions of psychological explanation. Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of Personality and (pretty much everyone, but Tal Yarkoni put it like this) “Meehl said most of what there is to say about this” Valerie Gray Hardcastle’s “How to build a theory in cognitive science”. Chapter 1 of Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. Guilford Publications. McGuire, W. J. (1997). Creative hypothesis generating in psychology: Some useful heuristics Jaccard, J., & Jacoby, J. (2010). Theory Construction and Model-building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Fiedler, K. (2004). Tools, toys, truisms, and theories: Some thoughts on the creative cycle of theory formation. Personality and Social Roberts and Pashler (2000). How persuasive is a good fit? A comment on theory testing From the discussion it is clear that the theory crisis will be every bit as rich and full of dissent as the methods crisis.