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The birth of a confounded idea: The joys and pitfalls of self-experimentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2004

Martin Voracek  and
Maryanne L. Fisher
Martin Voracek*
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Vienna, A-1010 Vienna, Austriahttp://mailbox.univie.ac.at/martin.voracek/
Maryanne L. Fisher*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 3C3, Canada
*
martin.voracek@univie.ac.at
mlfisher@smu.ca
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Abstract

According to Roberts, self-experimentation is a viable tool for idea generation in the behavioral sciences. Here we discuss some limitations of this assertion, as well as particular design and data-analytic shortcomings of his experiments.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , April 2004 , pp. 273 - 274
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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