Psychological experiments must connect to real everyday social situations to clarify concepts

Evidence

Psychologists, by and large, still believe that the way to clarify concepts is to invent experimental operations and to do experiments. They overlook the fact that such procedures, if they are to be used at all, have still to be linked up with social situations outside the laboratory, situations that are described by the subtle and enormously refi ned terms and concepts of ordinary language. — Cristian Tileagă, The Nature of Prejudice, 645

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the standing critique of lab social psychology (e.g. Harré’s ethogenic critique) that the author’s whole chapter builds on.