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2018

Toward a Psychology of Homo Sapiens: Making Psychological Science More Representative of the Human Population

Mostafa Salari Rad, Alison Jane Martingano & Jeremy Ginges

Updates the WEIRD-samples critique a decade on, finding the imbalance toward Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic participants has barely improved, and argues journals should require authors to state explicitly what population a finding is meant to generalise to.

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