ABSTRACT

Popper’s philosophy of falsificationism has a monopolistic position in the psychological study of human testing. Scientists and ordinary people alike should test their hypotheses with the intention to eliminate them. Falsificationism, as Popper’s (1935) philosophy is globally called, was proposed as a reaction to “logical positivism”, whose main defects were being dogmatic and making use of the unjustified method of “inductivism”. According to logical positivism, hypothesis testing is an activity aimed at finding empirical support for one’s hypothesis. The core objective of science, in this view, was that hypotheses should be supported by as much empirical evidence as could possibly be found.