How to incite scientific revolutions: A practical framework of converging evidence for behavioral sciences integration

If science is about the pursuit of truth, why do so many scientists disagree? Everyone’s models should tend to converge and get more consistent as they get progressively closer to describing the actual world, including across disciplines. Instead, people have noted repeated revolutions in science, in which one worldview is overthrown for a new worldview. The aim of this work is to outline a way to move behavioral sciences towards greater consistency with an integrated framework (possibly inciting revolutions in the process). This is a more practical rather than philosophical approach, that is designed as a framework for generating more powerful hypotheses and for better evaluating and advancing a chosen research topic. This work integrates previous frameworks (Marr’s computational framework, Tinbergen’s four questions, Schmitt & Pilcher’s converging evidence model) to be more comprehensive, complete, and specifically for the behavioral sciences. The goal is to help behavioral scientists, and other people who pay attention to and evaluate science, with a framework for thinking about topics.
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