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Folk psychology as a causal language

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: According to Oude Maatman (2020), our recent suggestion (Borsboom et al., 2019) that symptom networks are irreducible because they rely on folk psychological descriptions, threatens to undermine the main achievements of the network approach. In this article, we take up Oude Maatman’s challenge and develop an argument showing in what sense folk psychological concepts describe features of reality, and what it means to say that folk psychology is a causal language.

Source: Theory & Psychology

DOI: 10.1177/0959354320933940

Authors: Annemarie Kalis, Denny Borsboom

Institutions: Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam

Language: English

Topic: Mental Health Research Topics

Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,000

Funders: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek