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“Some preliminaries (page 22) The first feature is perhaps the one to have suffered most from the recent attacks on the impersonal style of psychological writing. This is the requirement to write in the passive form — that is, to use constructions such as 'an experiment was conducted' and 'it was found that' rather than 'I conducted an experiment' and 'we found that'.” — Peter Harris
Some preliminaries (page 22)
The first feature is perhaps the one to have suffered most from the recent attacks on the impersonal style of psychological writing. This is the requirement to write in the passive form — that is, to use constructions such as 'an experiment was conducted' and 'it was found that' rather than 'I conducted an experiment' and 'we found that'.