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CREATIVE HYPOTHESIS GENERATING IN PSYCHOLOGY: Some Useful Heuristics
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[Figure: see text] ▪ Abstract To correct a common imbalance in methodology courses, focusing almost entirely on hypothesis-testing issues to the neglect of hypothesis-generating issues which are at least as important, 49 creative heuristics are described, divided into 5 categories and 14 subcategories. Each of these heuristics has often been used to generate hypotheses in psychological research, and each is teachable to students. The 49 heuristics range from common sense perceptiveness of the oddity of natural occurrences to use of sophisticated quantitative data analyses in ways that provoke new insights.
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Metadata
- Authors
- McGuire, W. J.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- McGuire, William J.
- Venue
- Annual Review of Psychology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 1997-02
- Volume
- 48
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-30
- ISSN
- 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2085
- OpenAlex
- W2128556371
- Cited by
- 203
- References
- 46
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 44 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 26 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 0.84
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Creativity in Education and Neuroscience
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Keywords
- hypothesis generation, psychological research methods, research methods teaching, creative research, quantitative data analysis
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