On the Use of College Students in Social Science Research: Insights from a Second‐Order Meta‐analysis

By R. Peterson. 2001

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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The Effect of Online Information Search on Image Development (2009, background): “The use of college students as samples for research has been widely debated especially in consumer behavior literature (see Peterson, 2001 for an overview).”
A comprehensive comparison of students and non-students in classic experimental games (2015, background): “Rates of reciprocation in binary trust games typically are in the range of 50-60 percent. Casari et al. (2007), for example, report a rate of reciprocation of 60 percent for their student subjects.”
Describing Populations and Samples in Doctoral Student Research (2021, background): “Meta-analyses examining the differences between college students and nonstudents in research reveal some stark contrasts in the effects that are reported, both in magnitude and direction, suggesting that college students are not representative of the adult population as a whole (Peterson, 2001), dem”
Social Influence Online: The Impact of Social Validation and Likability on Compliance (2013, background): “It is typical for most psychology experiments, including social psychology, to include a convenience sample containing mostly undergraduate students (Peterson, 2001).”
The added value of the positive: A literature review of positive psychology interventions in organizations (2013, background): “On the other hand, a second order meta-analysis comparing social science research data for college students and nonstudents (adults) has shown that responses of students differ from those of non-students, yet not in a systematic way (Peterson, 2001).”
Getting Hooked on News: Uses and Gratifications and the Formation of News Habits Among College Students in an Internet Environment (2006, background): “There has been ongoing debate whether it is appropriate to use college students in social science research (see Basil, 1996; Calder, Phillips, & Tybout, 1983; Courtright, 1996; Peterson, 2001; Potter, Cooper, & Dupagne, 1995; Sparks, 1995).”
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science (2010, neutral): “Furthermore, this tendency to rely on undergraduate samples has not decreased over time (Peterson 2001; Wintre et al. 2001).”
Cognitive reflection test: Whom, how, when (2019, background): “There are mixed views on whether studies conducted with (volunteering) university students provide reliable results (Peterson 2001, Levitt and List 2007, Falk and Heckman 2009, Falk et al 2013, Exadaktylos et 4 The cognitive characteristic examined by Awasthi and Pratt (1990) is perceptual…”
A Meta-Analysis of Different Forms of Shared Leadership–Team Performance Relations (2016, background): “Classroom and lab samples are often criticized in organizational research because they are believed to be nonrepresentative of organizational settings (Highhouse & Gillespie, 2008; Peterson, 2001).”