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scientific law  

Definition

  • Empirical regularity or functional relationship established between variables, ideally universal (i.e., independent of time and space, culture), linked to more general principles and thus having explanatory power, preferably expressible in quantitative terms (Roediger, 2008; Teigen, 2002). A law must also support counterfactuals (Goodman, 1955).

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Entry terms

  • law of nature

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Goodman, N. (1955). Facts, fictions, and forecasts. Harvard University Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Hildebrand, T. (2023). Laws of nature. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009109949

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Kahana, M. J., Diamond, N. B., & Aka, A. (in press). Laws of human memory. In M. J. Kahana & A. D. Wagner (Eds.), Oxford handbook of human memory. Oxford University Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Roediger, III, H. L. (2008). Relativity of remembering: Why the laws of memory vanished. Annual Review of Psychology, 59(1), 225-254. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.57.102904.190139

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Teigen, K. H. (2002). One hundred years of laws in Psychology. The American Journal of Psychology, 115(1), 103-118. https://doi.org/10.2307/1423676

    [Study type: historical study / Access: closed]
  • • Tricard, J. (2023). Qu’est-ce qu’une loi de la nature ? Vrin.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Editorial note

  • The existence of laws in psychology, and in particular in the field of memory, is controversial (Kahana et al., in press ; Roediger, 2008).

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