The neglected 95%: why American psychology needs to become less American.

By Jeffrey Jensen Arnett. American Psychologist, 2008

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Current Emotion Research in the Language Sciences (2012, background): “Although assertions of universality are commonly found in the metaphor literature, the data on which these claims are based are rather slim: a few observations from a handful of WEIRD communities (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010), while neglecting 95% of humanity (Arnett, 2008).”
How USA-Centric Is Psychology? An Archival Study of Implicit Assumptions of Generalizability of Findings to Human Nature Based on Origins of Study Samples (2020, background): “These observations are consistent with prior criticisms of psychology being not only western-centric but too exclusively representative of the United States (Arnett, 2008; Christopher et al., 2014; Henrich et al., 2010; Rad et al., 2018).”
Tuning in to psychological change: Linguistic markers of psychological traits and emotions over time in popular U.S. song lyrics. (2011, background): “citizens occupy less than 5% of the world population, the changes we identified should not be taken to apply internationally (Arnett, 2008).”
Antecedents of Business Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Investigating the Interplay of Information Processing and Information Acquisition (2014, background): “Scholars have recently argued that it is important to go beyond current research settings and extend management research to settings that are characterized by poverty and economic underdevelopment (e.g., Arnett, 2008; Bruton, 2010).”
Cultural and Family Influences on Children’s Theory of Mind Development (2014, background): “This draws attention to recent calls for psychology to incorporate data collection from participants who are not of Western origin (Arnett, 2008; Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010) and how failure to do so can result in cultural norms of development being interpreted as universal norms.”
What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants (2019, background): “A review of psychological research in American Psychological Association journals in particular revealed 96% of participants were from WEIRD societies, although WEIRD societies represent only 12% of the world’s population (Arnett, 2008).”
College Students as Emerging Adults (2016, background): “Psychologists too often ignore SES, perhaps because of their search for human universals (J. J. Arnett, 2008), but given the demonstrated importance of SES in relation to a wide range of outcomes, SES background should be a standard part of any analyses on emerging adults.”
Cross-Cultural Variation in Mate Preferences for Averageness, Symmetry, Body Size, and Masculinity (2013, background): “…that the preferences of educated, Western undergraduate students who currently make up the vast majority of research participants in psychology and the behavioral sciences (~96%; Arnett, 2008) are representative of all ages, socioeconomic statuses, and cultures (Henrich et al., 2010; Sue, 1999).”
Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries (2018, background): “academic institutions and in Englishspeaking countries on a small, select, percentage of the world’s people (Arnett, 2008; Henrich et al., 2010).”
I Matter to My Friend, Therefore I am Happy: Friendship, Mattering, and Happiness (2011, background): “Indeed, this is a major concern in the psychological literature (e.g., Arnett 2008 ).”
Using Social Norms to Change Behavior and Increase Sustainability in the Real World: A Systematic Review of the Literature (2019, background): “Around two-thirds of studies (63%) identified their participants as students, which is a classic limitation [78,79], but there was a wide variety of participants in the rest of the studies (see Table 1).”
Self-esteem and the quality of romantic relationships (2016, result): “Therefore, future studies should replicate the key findings using samples from other cultural contexts, such as Asian and African countries (Arnett, 2008; Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010).”
Spoken language-mediated anticipatory eye- movements are modulated by reading ability - Evidence from Indian low and high literates (2012, background): “…whether the sophisticated language-mediated prediction abilities of Western undergraduate students generalize beyond these narrow samples (see Arnett, 2008; and Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010, who argue that the Western student participants used in most experimental studies in…”
Realizing the Potential of Behavioral Intervention Technologies (2013, background): “These features of BITs will help psychologists go beyond the current geographical limits of psychological science (Arnett, 2008).”