School of Psychology, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2011 Mar;6(2):172-82. doi: 10.1177/1745691611400240.
A number of recent articles (Fiedler, 2011, this issue; Gigerenzer, 2009; Kriegeskorte, Simmons, Bellgowen, & Baker, 2009; Vul & Kanwisher, 2010) have highlighted seemingly circular arguments and explanations in psychological research, which suggests that the problem is rife within psychology. The article reviews the literature on circularity, and, in light of this, evaluates these recent examples from psychology to determine whether it is indeed circularity that is the underlying problem and to make suggestions for what paths improvements might pursue.
一些近期的文章（Fiedler，2011，本期特刊；Gigerenzer，2009；Kriegeskorte、Simmons、Bellgowen 和 Baker，2009；Vul 和 Kanwisher，2010）强调了心理学研究中看似循环的论点和解释，这表明心理学领域中充斥着这类问题。本文综述了关于循环论证的文献，并根据这些文献，评估了心理学领域中的这些近期实例，以确定是否确实存在循环论证这一潜在问题，并为可能的改进途径提出建议。
