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A comment I've heard before from a psych researcher is that psych research at universities is the really the research into undergrads taking psych courses...
by pnathan 14y ago
A comment I've heard before from a psych researcher is that psych research at universities is the really the research into undergrads taking psych courses...
- disgruntledphd2 14y agoThis is very, very true. In fact, Heinrich et al wrote a wonderful paper decrying this very problem. humancond.org/_media/papers/weirdest_people.pdf Unfortunately, its not going to change, because of the pressures on academics to publish, publish, publish inclines them to take full advantage of these samples of convenience. Its actually even worse, because the majority of psych papers are based on American psych students, so there's not even much of a good geographic spread in the ridiculously limited samples psychologists use.