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ArticlePerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2026

To Be FAIR: Theory Specification Needs an Update.

Caspar J Van Lissa, Aaron Peikert, Maximilian S Ernst, Noah N N van Dongen, Felix D Schönbrodt, Andreas M Brandmaier

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Article in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Caspar J Van LissaDepartment of Methodology and Statistics, Tilburg University.ORCID 0000-0002-0808-5024
Aaron PeikertCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7813-818X
Maximilian S ErnstCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.
Noah N N van DongenFaculty of Law, University of Amsterdam.
Felix D SchönbrodtDepartment of Psychology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.ORCID 0000-0002-8282-3910
Andreas M BrandmaierCenter for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8765-6982

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Open science innovations have focused on rigorous theory testing, yet methods for specifying, sharing, and iteratively improving theories remain underdeveloped. To address this limitation, we introduce

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Psychological TheoryHumansfairtheorymetascienceopen sciencetheory formation

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PMID41570238
PMCPMC12960757

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