... Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven,ConnecticutC. Daniel Batson, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence,KansasRoy F. Baumeister, PhD, Department of Psychology, ... fromself-determination theory, automaticity research, and German will psychology. EXPERIMENTAL EXISTENTIAL PSYCHOLOGY AND M ODERN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY A case could be made that, even though they may not ... empirically assess the validity of hypotheses de-rived from social psychological theories was the one thing we could actually do. And so inthe mid-1980s we began to test hypotheses derived from the theory,...