Psychology is not about the results of simulations. If you can’t connect to people data why would anyone care?
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Sure. But that’s not what Joshua was asking about, I didn’t think
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I think it is. I guess he can clarify.

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Same difference for me. Modeling behaviour of a system = formalising the principles according to which the system works = encapsulating theoretical principles (code not required)
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I have linked to a paper (preprint) that just got accepted which only has modelling and the modelling is of psychological behaviors. What's wrong with it and why do you think it's misplaced as a paper? Amusingly the peer reviewers thought it was flawless:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/936995935594467328 …
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Great example. If I may, here is another: https://twitter.com/irisvanrooij/status/930557140485406726 … (I would also need to retract much of my papers if data was always necessary)
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@PsychScientists very much appreciating the push back - it was what I was hoping for. I think of simulation as valuable deductive reasoning for models whose consequences are non-obvious. Do you think deductive reasoning has a place in psych? Science generally? -
Here are some explicit arguments for this sort of work in: Management: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.562.5016&rep=rep1&type=pdf … Economics: https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/files/publications/farmer/EconomyNeeds.pdf … Ecology http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380011000524 … Molecular Bio http://www.pnas.org/content/102/2/255.full … and generally http://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl_3/7280.full … I don't get why psych is special
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(this is all agent-based stuff because that's where my head is).
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