Is Psychology Going to Cincinnati?

Abstract: Ever since I started my training in experimental psychology, I’ve been haunted by a doubt: how do we know that all of our work amounts to anything? Are we even headed in the right direction? I propose five tests to answer this question, and I show that psychology passes one and fails the other four. We’re stuck in the adolescence of our field because we haven’t yet discovered a paradigm. There’s a way to cross that threshold, but it requires entertaining some strange ideas.