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Theoretical formulations in psychology are frequently evaluated in terms of how plausible they appear to the reader, their contribution to the derivation of testable hypotheses, and the number of established data that they can encompass satisfactorily. Related to the first issue, the reader will be the judge of how plausible the theory appears after reading the subsequent chapters. With regard to the second issue, it is probably accurate to say that the present theory does generate hypotheses that are testable through empirical procedures. Furthermore, the theory also attempts to explain and integrate a wide variety of research findings from different response domains. Equally importantly, however, the theory seeks to provide some insights into important social phenomena. At this point it is appropriate to introduce the theory of uniqueness.
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Snyder, C.R., Fromkin, H.L. (1980). Theory of Uniqueness. In: Uniqueness. Perspectives in Social Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3659-4_3
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