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Functional clothes for the emperor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2004

Gary L. Brase*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO65211
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Abstract:

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A more complete and balanced theoretical framework for social psychology, as recommended in the target article, must include functional explanations of processes – moving beyond enumerations of processes and their properties. These functional explanations are at a different, but complementary, level from process descriptions. The further advancement of social psychology relies on the incorporation of such multilevel explanations.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004