College Sophomores in the Laboratory Redux: Influences of a Narrow Data Base on Social Psychology's View of the Nature of Prejudice

By P. Henry. 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Field experiments across the social sciences (2017, background): “Student samples are especially problematic for the study of racial attitudes, as young people—and college students especially—report less prejudice, are more aware of social norms against expressing prejudice, and are more likely to have received diversity training (Henry 2008).”
Where Have All the “Workers” Gone? A Critical Analysis of the Unrepresentativeness of Our Samples Relative to the Labor Market in the Industrial–Organizational Psychology Literature (2015, background): “…people waiting for jury duty, and twin 5 The problem of overreliance on undergraduate student samples in psychology has been discussed extensively in the psychology literature (Henrich,Heine,&Norenzayan, 2010;Henry, 2008; Sears, 1986), although others have made counterpoints (e.g., Ilgen, 1985).”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, unknown): “6%), and this percentage is accentuated in the higher-impact social psychology journals (Henry 2009).”
Can Evidence Impact Attitudes? Public Reactions to Evidence of Gender Bias in STEM Fields (2015, background): “…responds to calls for psychological research to venture beyond traditional study populations (e.g., the undergraduate subject pool) in order to increase the relevance of results for diverse realworld populations (Ginges, Atran, Sachdeva, & Medin, 2011; Henry, 2008; King et al., 2013; Paluck, 2006).”
Heterosexuals’ Attitudes Toward Transgender People: Findings from a National Probability Sample of U.S. Adults (2013, background): “…are they restricted on relevant demographic and developmental variables (e.g., educational level, age, social class), they also may reflect psychological processes that are strongly influenced by the generally liberal and egalitarian culture common to most campuses (e.g., Henry 2008; Sears 1986).”
Saving Face: Identifying Voter Responses to Black Candidates and Female Candidates (2016, background): “3 The effects are, however, somewhat stronger for undergraduate subjects (Henry, 2008).”
Discrimination Across the Ideological Divide (2013, background): “The values of college students tend to be more tolerant than the community at large (Henry, 2008; Sears, 1986).”
Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “7) American college students respond more favourably toward other groups in society, are more supportive of racial diversity, and are more motivated to mask or explain away negative intergroup attitudes, than are American adults (Henry, 2009).”
Can Non-full-probability Internet Surveys Yield Useful Data? A Comparison with Full-probability Face-to-face Surveys in the Domain of Race and Social Inequality Attitudes (2015, background): “Second, our work addresses researchers’ critiques that experimental investigations of prejudice are overly-reliant on convenience samples of college students (e.g., Sears 1986; Henry 2008).”
Political Intolerance, Right and Left (2014, background): “The limitations of using college student samples for research on sociopolitical attitudes are well-known (Henry, 2008; Visser, Krosnick, & Lavrakas, 2000).”
Recommendations for Increasing Replicability in Psychology † (2013, background): “Unfortunately, direct replication of findings is still uncommon in the psychological literature (Makel, Plucker, & Hegarty, 2012), even when it comes to textbook-level ‘facts’. For example, one area in psychology that has recently come under scrutiny is that of behavioural priming research (Yong, 20”