Typological thinking, statistical significance, and the methodological divergence of experimental psychology and economics

Hertwig and Ortmann suggest methodological practices from economics (script enactment, repeated measures, performance based payments, and absence of d eception) for psychology. Such prescriptive methodologies may be unrepresen tative of real world behaviors because people are not: always behaving with complete information, monetarily rewarded for important activities, repeat ing tasks to perfection, aware of all contributing variables. These proscri ptions, while useful in economics, may obfuscate important psychological ph enomena.