ABSTRACT
Intuitions and theoretical presuppositions do not belong to the ‘official’ theory or metatheory of psychology. Theories are not normally acknowledged to contain presuppositions or intuitive elements. Neither have presuppositions attracted serious attention in methodological discussions. 1 Of course, researchers often explicate their theoretical commitments by saying that their research is targeted to test some specific theoretical idea, such as ‘learned helplessness’, i.e. the mental state caused by random and subjectively uncontrollable reward and punishment, but very seldom, if ever, do they formulate their intuitive presuppositions. 2
