Not every part of a tree is a tree: A reply to Matta and Frank (2025).

IF 9.4 1区心理学 Q1 MANAGEMENT Journal of Applied Psychology Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1037/apl0001270

Yongheng Angus Yao, Zhenzhong Ma

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Our recent article on congruence research (Yao & Ma, 2023) advocated the need to adopt a holistic approach to studying congruence effects and to developing stronger congruence theories. Matta and Frank (2025) offered an insightful commentary on our article, highlighting theoretical and empirical/inferential concerns. These concerns include (a) whether the exact correspondence effect is the theoretical goal and (b) when researchers should consider applied conditions or reported conditions in congruence research. While Matta and Frank acknowledged the value of the holistic perspective, they recommended testing one's hypothesized form of congruence as the goal of future congruence research. We thank Matta and Frank for bringing up these issues. These issues have gained increased relevance and urgency especially after Yao and Ma (2023) identified several common issues in published congruence studies and offered suggestions for improvements. This reply is intended to clarify and extend our arguments on the holistic perspective, illustrating how this perspective can help address the concerns they raised and further advance congruence research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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我们最近发表的一篇关于一致性研究的文章（Yao & Ma, 2023）主张，有必要采用综合方法来研究一致性效应，并发展更强有力的一致性理论。Matta 和 Frank（2025 年）对我们的文章进行了精辟的评论，强调了理论和经验/推论方面的问题。这些问题包括：(a) 精确的对应效应是否是理论目标；(b) 在一致性研究中，研究人员应考虑应用条件还是报告条件。虽然 Matta 和 Frank 承认整体视角的价值，但他们建议将测试自己假设的一致性形式作为未来一致性研究的目标。我们感谢马塔和弗兰克提出这些问题。特别是在 Yao 和 Ma（2023 年）指出了已发表的一致性研究中的几个常见问题并提出了改进建议之后，这些问题变得更加重要和紧迫。本回复旨在澄清和扩展我们关于整体视角的论点，说明这一视角如何有助于解决他们提出的问题，并进一步推动一致性研究。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA，保留所有权利）。

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Applied Psychology® focuses on publishing original investigations that contribute new knowledge and understanding to fields of applied psychology (excluding clinical and applied experimental or human factors, which are better suited for other APA journals). The journal primarily considers empirical and theoretical investigations that enhance understanding of cognitive, motivational, affective, and behavioral psychological phenomena in work and organizational settings. These phenomena can occur at individual, group, organizational, or cultural levels, and in various work settings such as business, education, training, health, service, government, or military institutions. The journal welcomes submissions from both public and private sector organizations, for-profit or nonprofit. It publishes several types of articles, including: 1.Rigorously conducted empirical investigations that expand conceptual understanding (original investigations or meta-analyses). 2.Theory development articles and integrative conceptual reviews that synthesize literature and generate new theories on psychological phenomena to stimulate novel research. 3.Rigorously conducted qualitative research on phenomena that are challenging to capture with quantitative methods or require inductive theory building.