%0 Journal Article
%A Rohrer, Julia M.
%A Schmukle, Stefan C.
%A McElreath, Richard
%+ Department of Human Behavior Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T The only thing that can stop bad causal inference is good causal inference : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000A-8357-0
%R 10.1017/S0140525X21000789
%D 2022
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X In psychology, causal inference – both the transport from lab estimates to the real world and estimation on the basis of observational data – is often pursued in a casual manner. Underlying assumptions remain unarticulated; potential pitfalls are compiled in post-hoc lists of flaws. The field should move on to coherent frameworks of causal inference and generalizability that have been developed elsewhere.
%J Behavioral and Brain Sciences
%V 45
%] e91
%I Cambridge University Press
%C Cambridge
%@ 1469-1825