Go WILD, Not WEIRD

Reliance on convenience samples for psychological experiments has led to the oversampling of Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) populations (Henrich et al. 2010a). Our analysis of academic articles from six leading psychology journals revealed a significantly lower but s...

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Authors: Newson, Martha (Author) ; Buhrmester, Michael (Author) ; Whitehouse, Harvey (Author) ; Xygalatas, Dimitris (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. [2021]
In: Journal for the cognitive science of religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 80–106
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Sample / Representativity / Diversity / Eurocentrism / Experiment / Religious psychology / Kognitive Religionswissenschaft
IxTheo Classification:AE Psychology of religion
NCJ Ethics of science
Further subjects:B inter-disciplinarity
B WILD
B ecological validity
B WEIRD
B Methods
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