Proliferation of measures contributes to advancing psychological science

Dragos Iliescu; Samuel Greiff; Matthias Ziegler; Christopher Nye; Kurt Geisinger; Martin Sellbom; Douglas Samuel; Donald Saklofske

doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00065-w

Proliferation of measures contributes to advancing psychological science

Commun Psychol. 2024 Mar 9;2(1):19. doi: 10.1038/s44271-024-00065-w.

Authors

Dragos Iliescu^#^{1

2}, Samuel Greiff^#³, Matthias Ziegler⁴, Christopher Nye⁵, Kurt Geisinger⁶, Martin Sellbom⁷, Douglas Samuel⁸, Donald Saklofske⁹

Affiliations

¹ University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania. dragos.iliescu@fpse.unibuc.ro.
² Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. dragos.iliescu@fpse.unibuc.ro.
³ Luxembourg University, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
⁴ Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, Germany.
⁵ Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.
⁶ University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.
⁷ University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
⁸ Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
⁹ Western University, London, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Proliferation and variability of psychological measures are part of the natural workings of the scientific process. They contribute to theory development, transparency, replicability, and validity, and restricting proliferation might hinder progress in the psychological sciences.