PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE Commentary PSYCHOLOGY AS COMMON SENSE: The Case of Findings Concerning Work Motivation and Satisfaction

Psychology as a whole, as well as various of its sub-disciplines, has from time to time been criticized for merely restating in jargon what is often referred to as C O ~ I ~ I I O I I sense psychology (also variously called folkpsy-clzology, lay psychology, and popiclar psychology). An early such criticism was that by Bode (1922); others have been more recent (e.g., Barnett, 1986; Barnett, Knust