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Brase (2004, Behavioral and Brain Sciences)
A more complete and balanced theoretical framework for social psychology, as recommended in the target article, must include functional explanations of processes – moving beyond enumerations of processes and their properties. These functional explanations are at a different, and complementary, level from process descriptions.