PBS Impossible Trinity

Are you frustrated by the state of psychological science? Do you feel stuck between producing precise-but-narrow findings that don't connect and wrestling with broad-but-vague theories that lack predictive power? You are not alone. For decades, our field has been constrained by a fundamental methodological challenge that makes truly integrative, precise-and-broad research feel nearly impossible. It can seem like there is no way out.

But there is a way out.

This channel is dedicated to building a new paradigm for experimental psychology. We start with a first-principle conjecture, the PBS Impossible Trinity, and illustrate a practical, operationalized methodology called Comprehensive Exploration (CE).

This framework is laid out in the paper, "Addressing the Precision-Breadth-Simplicity Impossible Trinity in Psychological Research: A Comprehensive Exploration Approach," recently published in Review of General Psychology (https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680251380430).