ABSTRACT
According to Rennie, Phillips, and Quartaro there is a growing consensus to the effect that psychology has overestimated methodologically correct research to the detriment of thinking and creativity. As a result, theorising is less respected and known than trivial, busy-work empirical research. In the same vein, Granger questions the indiscriminate use of the experimental method in clinical and social psychology, calling instead for an increased use of the potentially richer methods of observation and modelling. It should be pointed out that theorising is in no way easier than research. In the traditional philosophy of science, theorisation can have two contexts: discovery and justification. In the context of discovery, the ideas belonging to the theory are in a vague, informal state, while in justification, the ideas are more sharply defined and their logical links can be stated in a more explicit and systematic way.
