The MTurkification of Social and Personality Psychology
The MTurkification of Social and Personality Psychology
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DOI：
10.1177/0146167218798821
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发表时间：
2019-06-01
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4
通讯作者：
Rokkum, Jeffrey N.
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作者：
Anderson, Craig A.;Allen, Johnie J.;Rokkum, Jeffrey N.
简短的在线研究在改变研究类型和可能发展的理论方面的潜在作用是在社会和人格心理学理论和方法的早期变化的背景下进行的，这些变化倾向于低难度、高容量的研究。一个进化的比喻表明，当前社会和人格心理学的出版环境是一个高度竞争的环境，学术生存和繁殖过程（获得工作、终身职位/晋升、拨款、奖励、优秀的研究生）可能导致重要研究领域的灭绝。通过追踪三个顶级期刊（《人格与社会心理学杂志》、《人格与社会心理学公报》、《实验社会心理学杂志》）上使用Amazon Mechanical Turk进行的简短在线研究的流行情况，可以发现它们的频率和比例都在急剧增加。对这一趋势对该领域和从业者的影响、建议和问题进行了讨论。
The potential role of brief online studies in changing the types of research and theories likely to evolve is examined in the context of earlier changes in theory and methods in social and personality psychology, changes that favored low-difficulty, high-volume studies. An evolutionary metaphor suggests that the current publication environment of social and personality psychology is a highly competitive one, and that academic survival and reproduction processes (getting a job, tenure/promotion, grants, awards, good graduate students) can result in the extinction of important research domains. Tracking the prevalence of brief online studies, exemplified by studies using Amazon Mechanical Turk, in three top journals (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology) reveals a dramatic increase in their frequency and proportion. Implications, suggestions, and questions concerning this trend for the field and questions for its practitioners are discussed.