累积性科学 [Cumulative science]
定义: 实证科学的目标在于“构建一个累积性的知识基础，以便科学的未来可建立在其基础之上” （Curran, 2009, p. 1）。累积性科学支持这样一种观点，即随着所收集的证据和数据的增多，科学将创造出更完整和准确的理论。累积性科学的发展并非突然发生的，而是循序渐进的。革命性科学鲜有出现，而累积性科学才是最常见的科学形式。
相关术语: Slow Science
参考文献:
- Curran, P. J. (2009). The seemingly quixotic pursuit of a cumulative psychological science: Introduction to the special issue. Psychological Methods, 14(2), 77–80. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0015972
- d’Espagnat, B. (2008). Is science cumulative? A physicist viewpoint. In Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison (pp. 145–151). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6279-7_10
- Kuhn, T. (1962). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. University of Chicago Press.
- Mischel, W. (2009). Becoming a Cumulative Science. Association for Psychological Science. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/becoming-a-cumulative-science
原稿作者: Beatrice Valentini
审阅者: Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Mahmoud Elsherif, Helena Hartmann, Oscar Lecuona, Wanyin Li, Sonia Rishi, Flávio Azevedo
翻译者: AI-driven translation tool "TransFlow" (developed by Jinbiao Yang and COSN OpenTransfer team)
译稿审阅者: Cathy Fang, Liangjie Chen, Ruoting Liu, Shuxian Jin