{"pk":27070,"title":"Legal HARKing: theoretical grounding in interaction research","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In psychology, we tend to follow the general logic of fal-sificationism: we separate the ‘context of discovery’ (howwe come up with theories) from the ‘context of justification’(how we test them). However, when studying human interac-tion, separating these contexts can lead to theories with lowecological validity that do not generalize well to life outsidethe lab. We propose borrowing research practices from for-mal inductive methodologies during the process of discover-ing new regularities and analyzing natural data without beingled by theory. From the perspective of experimental psychol-ogy, this approach may appear similar to the ‘questionable re-search practice’ of HARKing (Hypothesizing After The Re-sults are Known). We argue that a carefully constructed formof HARKing can be used systematically and transparently dur-ing exploratory research and can lead to more robust and eco-logically valid theories.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"HARKing; experimentalpsychology; conversation analysis; methodology; interaction"}],"section":"Posters: Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/11c3q50g","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Saul","middle_name":"","last_name":"Albert","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tufts University","department":""},{"first_name":"J.P.","middle_name":"","last_name":"de Ruiter","name_suffix":"","institution":"Tufts University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27070/galley/16706/download/"}]}