caa a22 4500 44532967X CHVBK 20180317142733.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10648-011-9163-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10648-011-9163-x Commentary on Causal Prescriptive Statements [Elektronische Daten] [Arthur Graesser, Xiangen Hu] Causal prescriptive statements are valued in the social sciences when there is the goal of helping people through interventions. The articles in this special issue cover different methods for testing causal prescriptive statements. This commentary identifies both virtues and liabilities of these different approaches. We argue that it is extremely difficult to confirm causal prescriptive statements because of the potentially infinite number of third variables in causal relationships and of confounding variables in experimental manipulations. All methodological approaches, including randomized control trials, have a simple view of causality that does not adequately solve the challenges of indeterminacy, interactions, combinatorial explosion, and dynamics. However, these challenges should not discourage researchers from formulating and testing causal prescriptive statements. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 Causal statements nationallicence Research methods randomized control trials nationallicence Prescriptive statements nationallicence Graesser Arthur Department of Psychology and Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 202 Psychology Building, 400 Innovation Drive, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut Hu Xiangen Department of Psychology and Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 202 Psychology Building, 400 Innovation Drive, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut Educational Psychology Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/2(2011-06-01), 279-285 1040-726X 23:2<279 2011 23 10648 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-011-9163-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-011-9163-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Graesser Arthur Department of Psychology and Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 202 Psychology Building, 400 Innovation Drive, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hu Xiangen Department of Psychology and Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Memphis, 202 Psychology Building, 400 Innovation Drive, 38152, Memphis, TN, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Educational Psychology Review Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/2(2011-06-01), 279-285 1040-726X 23:2<279 2011 23 10648 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer