Shimp C P
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City 84112-0251, USA.
J Exp Anal Behav. 1999 Mar;71(2):284-8. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1999.71-284.
Scientists often evaluate other people's theories by the same standards they apply to their own work; it is as though scientists may believe that these criteria are independent of their own personal priorities and standards. As a result of this probably implicit belief, they sometimes may make less useful judgments than they otherwise might if they were able and willing to evaluate a specific theory at least partly in terms of the standards appropriate to that theory. Journal editors can play an especially constructive role in managing this diversity of standards and opinion.
科学家们常常依据他们用于自身研究的相同标准来评估他人的理论；仿佛科学家们可能认为这些标准独立于他们自己的个人偏好和标准。由于这种可能隐含的信念，他们有时可能会做出比在能够并且愿意至少部分依据适用于该理论的标准来评估特定理论时更无用的判断。期刊编辑在管理这种标准和观点的多样性方面可以发挥特别建设性的作用。
