Psychology as the Science of Self-Reports and Finger Movements: Whatever Happened to Actual Behavior?

By Roy F. Baumeister, Kathleen D. Vohs, D. Funder. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2007

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Persons, behaviors and situations: An agenda for personality psychology in the postwar era (2009, background): “The inclusion of behavior in psychological research in social as well as personality psychology is less common than one might expect (Baumeister et al., 2007), and when it is included the behavioral measure is typically an ad hoc observation of a response or two particular to the specific topic…”
When and why do implicit measures predict behaviour? Empirical evidence for the moderating role of opportunity, motivation, and process reliance (2008, methodology): “In the final dataset we included studies that (a) featured an implicit measure assessing individual differences to predict (b) “real” behaviour (Baumeister, Vohs, & Funder, 2007 ); that is, social interactions, actual choice, consummatory behaviours, and the like.”
Preliminary evidence of diurnal rhythms in everyday behaviors associated with positive affect (2008, result): “Finally, studying diurnal rhythms in affect-associated daily behaviors is also in line with Baumeister and his colleagues’s recent plea for ‘‘affirmative action for action” (p. 401) research in social and personality psychology—a field that currently experiences a dearth of studies that measures ‘‘a”
Mindfulness, by any other name…: trials and tribulations of sati in western psychology and science (2011, background): “Baumeister et al. (2007) provide evidence suggesting that up to 80% of current research in social and personality psychology may rely upon such indirect assessments of behaviour.”
Personality psychology as a truly behavioural science (2009, background): “One might argue that psychology has never dedicated itself strongly to a comprehensive and coherent examination of basic social behaviours (Baumeister et al., 2007; Furr et al., in press).”