New York University.
Saybrook University.
Am Psychol. 2014 Sep;69(6):636-7. doi: 10.1037/a0037390.
Replies to the comments of Nickerson (see record 2014-36500-010), Guastello (see record 2014-36500-011), Musau (see record 2014-36500-013), Hämäläinen et al. (see record 2014-36500-014), and Lefebvre and Schwartz (see record 2014-36500-015) on the authors article (see record 2013-24609-001). Fredrickson and Losada's (2005) article was the subject of over 350 scholarly citations before our critique (Brown et al., 2013) appeared, and its principal "conclusions" have been featured in many lectures and public presentations by senior members of the positive psychology research community, although its deficiencies ought to have been visible to anyone with a modest grasp of mathematics and a little curiosity. Unfortunately- because human behavior is, after all, complex and difficult to understand-we have no way of knowing whether the fact that it took so long for these deficiencies to be recognized was due to an unwarranted degree of optimism about the reliability of the peer-review process, a reluctance to make waves in the face of powerful interests, a general lack of critical thinking within positive psychology, or some other factor. We hope that our revelation of the problems with the critical positivity ratio ultimately demonstrates the success of science as a self-correcting endeavor; however, we would have greatly preferred it if our work had not been necessary in the first place.
回复尼克森（参见记录 2014-36500-010）、瓜斯泰洛（参见记录 2014-36500-011）、穆萨乌（参见记录 2014-36500-013）、哈梅莱宁等人（参见记录 2014-36500-014）以及勒费布尔和施瓦茨（参见记录 2014-36500-015）对作者文章（参见记录 2013-24609-001）的评论。弗雷德里克森和洛萨达（2005）的文章在我们的批评（布朗等人，2013）发表之前，已经被 350 多篇学术文献引用，其主要的“结论”已经在积极心理学研究界的许多高级成员的讲座和公开演讲中出现，尽管任何一个对数学有一定掌握并有点好奇心的人都应该能够看出它的缺陷。不幸的是——毕竟，人类行为是复杂的，难以理解的——我们无法知道这些缺陷被发现得如此之晚是由于对同行评审过程的可靠性的不适当的乐观态度，还是由于面对强大的利益集团而不愿意制造麻烦，还是由于积极心理学缺乏批判性思维，或者是由于其他因素。我们希望我们对关键阳性率问题的揭示最终能够证明科学作为一种自我纠错的努力的成功；然而，如果我们的工作一开始就没有必要，我们会更加高兴。
