We agree with Arocha’s criticism of psychological science’s reliance on statistical procedures that factor out intraindividual variability and the complex dynamics inherent to behavior, as well as with his call for the adoption of a metatheoretical framework that embraces such variability. However, we disagree that scientific realism provides such a framework, given its reductive privileging of certain forms of explanation over others. We advocate, instead, a process-relational paradigm and the explanatory pluralism that it supports, allowing psychological science to more dynamically, and realistically, model individual human behavior.

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拥抱可变性和复杂性以及科学现实主义的解释性还原论

我们同意 Arocha 对心理科学依赖统计程序的批评，这些程序将个体内部的可变性和行为固有的复杂动态因素排除在外，以及他呼吁采用包含这种可变性的元理论框架。然而，我们不同意科学实在论提供这样一个框架，因为它对某些形式的解释具有简化的特权。相反，我们提倡过程关系范式及其支持的解释性多元化，使心理科学能够更动态、更现实地模拟个人人类行为。