Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
- Construct validity: Are the cognitive constructs (e.g., bias, system, heuristic) well-defined and distinct?
- Mechanism clarity: Is a causal cognitive mechanism proposed, or merely a descriptive pattern?
- Experimental design quality: Controls, randomization, task validity, demand effects.
- Replicability: Do findings hold across replications, labs, populations, and time?
- Effect size & practical significance: Are effects meaningful outside the lab?
- Boundary conditions: When, for whom, and under what conditions do effects disappear or reverse?
- Ecological validity: Do lab tasks resemble real cognitive environments?
- Population generalizability: Are results limited to WEIRD samples or broader populations?
- Competing explanations: Have alternative cognitive or contextual explanations been ruled out?
- Measurement integrity: Are proxies (reaction time, error rate, self-report) reliable and interpretable?
- Temporal stability: Are effects stable over time or context-dependent?
- Normative vs descriptive distinction: Does the work explain how people think or prescribe how they should think?
- Translation risk: Likelihood of misapplication in policy, management, or self-help contexts.