September 1, 1997Review of General Psychology
Writing Narrative Literature Reviews
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Implication
Methodological review demonstrates the scientific utility and analytical framework of narrative reviews, highlighting strategies to avoid common author pitfalls.
Key Points
- To delineate the scientific role of narrative literature reviews and provide guidelines for effectively drafting them while avoiding common author pitfalls.
- Conceptual comparison between narrative literature reviews and primary empirical research articles.
- Analysis of hypothesis evaluation outcomes, post hoc theorizing limits, and common manuscript writing errors.
- Narrative reviews uniquely allow scholars to address broad conceptual questions, evaluate evidence for null hypotheses, and synthesize methodologically diverse studies.
- Syntheses can systematically lead to one of four conclusions: confirmed hypothesis, best current guess, falsified hypothesis, or inconclusive evidence.
- Frequent structural and interpretive pitfalls in literature review manuscripts are identified and addressed.
Cite This Study
Baumeister et al. (1997) studied this question.