Comprehensive Exploration (CE)

We argue that psychology faces a fundamental Precision-Breadth-Simplicity impossible trinity: precise experimental findings are often fragmented, while broad theoretical notions tend to remain ambiguous. 

Therefore, the best way forward is to embrace some complexity as a necessary cost—and to strive for research that is both precise and broad through the Comprehensive Exploration (CE) approach.

The details of this approach are described in this paper and further explained on this YouTube channel. A list of published and ongoing projects using CE is available here.

A particularly noteworthy category is large-scale collaborative CE projects (see details), which may offer greater effectiveness compared to traditional large-scale collaborations (e.g., adversarial collaborations).