Generating integrative frameworks can paradoxically increase rather than reduce the number of theoretical models¶

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q1 i? If integrative models combine subsets of original theories, the overall number of available models can multiply rather than shrink. → Reinhard Pekrun 2024

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Reinhard Pekrun 2024¶

Reinhard Pekrun. (2024). Overcoming Fragmentation in Motivation Science: Why, When, and How Should We Integrate Theories? Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09846-5

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This is the author's analytical illustration in the commentary's paradoxical side effects section: combining nine theories three at a time yields 84 possible combinatory models, a situation "prone to increase rather than reduce complexity and confusion." No empirical data are involved.

"if we consider nine different theories (as in Skinner’s, 2023, Table 1, list of prominent theories) and each attempt to combine some of these theories includes three of them (as in the framework by Dinsmore et al., 2023), then there are 84 possible combinatory models."

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