A concept lacking mechanistic process descriptions cannot progress scientifically
Evidence
In sum, although Allport made a strong case for projection as a process that should be of interest to students of prejudice, his more speciļ¬c deļ¬nitions and distinctions did not necessarily provide a solid foundation for later research. Others had no more luck taming the concept. In the end, all such attempts suffered from the same limitation: a lack of a clear description of the cognitive and motivational processes underlying projection. Without a more process-oriented approach, and without speciļ¬cation of the mental mechanisms involved, efforts to clarify the nature of projection were doomed to failure. ā John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2352 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Treating symptoms without addressing underlying causes cannot restore a system. ā Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,ā¦, 293; Effective agency requires no knowledge of underlying mechanical causation; Concepts lacking process-level mechanistic description resist scientific clarification ā John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Yearsā¦, 2352 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Concepts lacking process-level mechanistic description resist scientific clarification
#corroborates(0.98) ā John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 2352 - Mechanical causality cannot account for qualitative change or historical novelty.
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