This discussion initiated by Ekaterina Damer has elicited numerous suggestions from mental health professionals on Twitter. Below are the majority of those suggestions, accompanied by their respective recommenders. I haven’t personally perused these materials, but I aimed to gather them all in one location. Feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.<\/p>\n
(Iris van Rooij)
\n[\u201cHow does it work?\u201d vs. \u201cWhat are the laws?\u201d Two accounts of psychological explanation.](https:\/\/pdfs.semanticscholar.org\/f5b1\/b05e8313aee94ccd98e80eab3ec56dbd2c97.pdf) Robert Cummins<\/p>\n
(Ed Orehek)
\n[Theory Construction in Social Personality Psychology: Personal Experiences and Lessons Learned: A Special Issue of Personality and Social Psychology Review](http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1207\/s15327957pspr0802_1)<\/p>\n
(Djouria Ghilani)
\n[Personal Reflections on Theory and Psychology](http:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1177\/0959354310378184)
\nGerd Gigerenzer,
\n[Selected\u2009Works of Barry N. Markovsky](https:\/\/works.bepress.com\/barry_markovsky\/)<\/p>\n
(almost everyone, but Tal Yarkoni expressed it this way)
\n\u201cMeehl laid out nearly everything there is to convey about this\u201d<\/p>\n
– [Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox](http:\/\/meehl.umn.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/pua1696\/f\/074theorytestingparadox.pdf)
\n– [Evaluating and refining theories: The Lakatosian defense strategy and its two justifying principles](http:\/\/meehl.umn.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/pua1696\/f\/147appraisingamending.pdf)
\n– [The reasons research summaries on psychological theories are frequently inscrutable](http:\/\/meehl.umn.edu\/sites\/g\/files\/pua1696\/f\/144whysummaries.pdf)<\/p>\n
(This brings to mind, [PsychBrief](https:\/\/twitter.com\/PsyBrief) has been engaging with Meehl’s work and offers comprehensive summaries at this link: [Paul Meehl on philosophy of science: video lectures and papers](http:\/\/psychbrief.com\/meehl-videos-papers\/))<\/p>\n
(Burak Tunca)
\n[What Theory is Not](http:\/\/haas.berkeley.edu\/faculty\/papers\/stawtheory.pdf) by Robert I. Sutton & Barry M. Staw<\/p>\n
(Joshua Skewes)
\nValerie Gray Hardcastle\u2019s \u201cHow to construct a theory in cognitive science\u201d.<\/p>\n
(Randy McCarthy)
\nChapter 1 of Gawronski, B., & Bodenhausen, G. V. (2015). Theory and explanation in social psychology. Guilford Publications.<\/p>\n
(Kimberly Quinn)
\nMcGuire, W. J. (1997). [Innovative hypothesis generation in psychology: Some beneficial heuristics](http:\/\/sing.stanford.edu\/cs303-sp11\/papers\/mcguire_hypothesis_gen.pdf). Annual review of psychology, 48(1), 1-30.<\/p>\n
(Dani\u00ebl Lakens)
\nJaccard, J., & Jacoby, J. (2010). Theory Construction and Model-building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists. Guilford Press.
\nFiedler, K. (2004). Instruments, gadgets, principles, and theories: Reflections on the inventive cycle of theory development. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 8(2), 123\u2013131.<\/p>\n
(Tom Stafford)
\nRoberts and Pashler (2000). [How convincing is a good fit? A commentary on theory testing](https:\/\/cloudfront.escholarship.org\/dist\/prd\/content\/qt5vt0z72k\/qt5vt0z72k.pdf)<\/p>\n
The conversation indicates that the theoretical crisis will be just as complex and contentious as the crisis in methodologies.<\/p>\n
**Updates 16 August 2018**<\/p>\n
(Richard Prather)
\nSimmering et al (2010). [To Model or Not to Model? A Conversation on the Role of Computational Modeling in Developmental Science](https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3103214\/)<\/p>\n
(Brett Buttliere: we created a Facebook group to discuss theory)
\n[Psychological Theory Discussion Group](https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/153619768802306\/about\/)<\/p>\n
(Eric Morris)
\nWilson, K. G. (2001). [Some thoughts on theoretical constructs: categories and validation from a contextual behavioral perspective](http:\/\/www.ijpsy.com\/volumen1\/num2\/23\/some-notes-on-theoretical-constructs-types-EN.pdf)<\/p>\n
(Michael P. Grosz)
\n[Theoretical Amnesia](http<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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