Systematic Representative Design: A Reply to Commentaries

Abstract Systematic Representative Design (SRD), enabled by today’s technologies leverages many of the strengths of past designs into a new synthesis affording the capacity for both causal inference and generalizability to everyday life (GEL). In doing so, it could help better integrate past and ongoing empirical research findings in psychology. Generally, the commentaries were positive and thought-provoking. Delightfully, they gave us new opportunities to both clarify misunderstandings as well as further address the feasibility of this approach.

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