Psychologists' response to criticisms about research based on undergraduate participants: A developmental perspective.

By M. Wintre, C. North, Lorne A. Sugar. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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• Happiness and Subjective Wellbeing in Mainland China (2008, unknown): “The use of student samples as a surrogate adult sample has been criticized widely, as they are not representative of the adult population nor their own age-group ( Wintre et al. 2001; Cummins 2003).”
• Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “ Such studies are thus sampling from a rather limited subpopulation within each country  (see Rozin, 2001).”
• Convenience samples of college students and research reproducibility (2014, background): “" However, other researchers, such as Sears (1986) and Wintre, North, and Sugar (2001), have expressed unease about the use of a narrow database of college students in behavioral research.”