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  • May 2022
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  • Nature Reviews Psychology

Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning

By: Jon M. Jachimowicz
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Abstract

Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field—which researchers currently favour—we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field first.

Keywords

Field Studies; Social Psychology; Learning

Citation

Jachimowicz, Jon M. "Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning." Nature Reviews Psychology 1, no. 5 (May 2022): 249–250.
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Jon M. Jachimowicz

Organizational Behavior
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