Max Weber attributes the rise of modern Western society to Puritanism, noting that the Calvinist Protestant found, in his lonely attempt to communicate directly with God, a sense of human dignity and individualism in agreement with the rational structure of democracy. Weber, however, asserts that Confucianism lacks the Protestant way of thinking and hence cannot help with the rise of a modern C...

How can we maximize what is learned from a replication study? In the creative destruction approach to replication, original hypothesis compared not only null hypothesis, but also predictions derived multiple alternative theoretical accounts of phenomenon. To this end, new populations and measures are included in design addition ones, help determine which theory best for results across key outco...