In Defense of Practical Theory

Seymour Adler and Anthony S. Boyce

Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 2016, vol. 9, issue 3, 641-645

Abstract: Chamorro-Premuzic, Winsborough, Sherman, and Hogan (2016) end their focal article with a quote worth remembering from Immanuel Kant: “Theory without data is groundless, but data without theory is just uninterpretable.” We begin with a quote even better known to industrial–organizational (I-O) psychologists in part because it has served for over 65 years as a foundational principle of our field: “There is nothing as practical as a good theory” (Lewin, 1951, p. 169).

Date: 2016
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