This thread initiated by Ekaterina Damer has sparked numerous suggestions from psychologists on Twitter. Below are the majority of the suggestions, along with their recommender in parentheses. I haven’t personally read these, but I wanted to gather them all in one location. Comments are welcome if you have your own recommendations.
– (Iris van Rooij) [“How does it function?” vs. “What are the principles?” Two perspectives on psychological explanation](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f5b1/b05e8313aee94ccd98e80eab3ec56dbd2c97.pdf). Robert Cummins
– (Ed Orehek) [Theory Development in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Insights and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1207/s15327957pspr0802_1)
– (Djouria Ghilani) [Personal Insights on Theory and Psychology](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959354310378184). Gerd Gigerenzer
– [Collected Works of Barry N. Markovsky](https://works.bepress.com/barry_markovsky/)
– (mostly everyone, but Tal Yarkoni articulated it this way) “Meehl articulated most of what there is to convey about this”
– [Theory-validation in psychology and physics: A methodological contradiction](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/074theorytestingparadox.pdf)
– [Evaluating and modifying theories: The approach of Lakatosian defense and two principles that justify it](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/147appraisingamending.pdf)
– [Why overviews of research on psychological theories are frequently incomprehensible](http://meehl.umn.edu/sites/g/files/pua1696/f/144whysummaries.pdf)
(Which reminds me, [PsychBrief](https://twitter.com/PsyBrief) has been exploring Meehl and offers comprehensive summaries here: [Paul Meehl on philosophy of science: video lectures and papers](http://psychbrief.com/meehl-videos-papers/))
– (Burak Tunca) [What Theory is Not](http://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/papers/stawtheory.pdf) by Robert I. Sutton & Barry M. Staw
– (Joshua Skewes) Valerie Gray Hardcastle’s “How to construct a theory in cognitive science”.
– (Randy McCarthy) Chapter 1 of Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. Guilford Publications.
– (Kimberly Quinn) McGuire, W. J. (1997). [Creative hypothesis generation in psychology: Some practical heuristics](http://sing.stanford.edu/cs303-sp11/papers/mcguire_hypothesis_gen.pdf). Annual review of psychology, 48(1), 1-30.
– (Daniël Lakens) Jaccard, J., & Jacoby, J. (2010). Theory Construction and Model-building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Guilford Press.
– Fiedler, K. (2004). Tools, toys, truisms, and theories: Some reflections on the imaginative cycle of theory creation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(2), 123–131.
– (Tom Stafford) Roberts and Pashler (2000). [How convincing is a good fit? A commentary on theory validation](https://cloudfront.escholarship.org/dist/prd/content/qt5vt0z72k/qt5vt0z72k.pdf)
From the discussion, it is evident that the theory crisis will be just as rich and rife with disagreement as the methods crisis.
**Updates 16 August 2018**
– (Richard Prather) Simmering et al (2010). [To Model or Not to Model? A Dialogue on the Role of Computational Modeling in Developmental Science](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103214/)
– (Brett Buttliere: we created a Facebook group to discuss theory) [Psychological Theory Discussion Group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/153619768802306/about/)
– (Eric Morris) Wilson, K. G. (2001). [Some observations on theoretical constructs: types and validation from a contextual behavioral perspective](http://www.ijpsy.com/volumen1/num2/23/some-notes-on-theoretical-constructs-types-EN.pdf)
– (Michael P. Grosz) [Theoretical