WORKSHOP: Enhancing robustness and generalizability in the social and behavioral sciences

研讨会：增强社会和行为科学的稳健性和普遍性

• 批准号: 1647219
• 负责人: Douglas Medin
• 金额: $ 6.76万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1647219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Enhancing; robustness; generalizability; social

Most experimental studies in the behavioral sciences rely on college students as participants for reasons of convenience, and most take place in North America and Europe. As a result, studies are only sampling from a narrow range of human experiences. The results of these studies have limited generalizability, failing to reflect the full range of mental and behavioral phenomena across diverse cultures and backgrounds. However sampling from broader populations is challenging, due to limited opportunities and access, heightened cost, and the need for specific knowledge about how to adapt research protocols to different communities. The goal of this workshop is to develop some tools and guidelines to help researchers overcome barriers to broader sampling, and to incentivize doing so through better institutional support.The goal of this workshop is to develop tools to support and encourage increased robustness and generalizability in the experimental behavioral sciences. The meeting is dedicated to identifying and developing potential solutions to the so-called "WEIRD people" problem: the fact that most experimental behavioral science research is conducted with members of WEIRD populations (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich Democracies). The discovery that much of this research fails to generalize to broader populations and fails to capture the range of human patterned variation in thought and behavior creates a pressing need for research approaches to be more inclusive. Although there are researchers throughout the world who have developed effective models for overcoming these limitations, there are significant barriers to achieving robust and generalizable experimental behavioral research for most researchers. This workshop will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines whose research represents positive case studies of how to overcome these barriers. The participants aspire to accomplish three goals: 1) develop tools and training materials to help researchers enhance diversity in their research populations, 2) develop infrastructure solutions for connecting researchers across diverse contexts and populations, and 3) develop a set of recommendations for institutional changes to support enhancing diversity in experimental behavioral science through manuscript, grant, and tenure review.

大多数行为科学的实验研究都依赖于大学生作为参与者，大多数发生在北美和欧洲。因此，研究只是从人类经验的狭窄范围内取样。 这些研究的结果具有有限的普遍性，未能反映不同文化和背景下的心理和行为现象的全部范围。 然而，从更广泛的人群中取样是具有挑战性的，因为机会和途径有限，成本增加，以及需要关于如何使研究方案适应不同社区的具体知识。 本次研讨会的目标是开发一些工具和指导方针，以帮助研究人员克服更广泛的采样的障碍，并通过更好的机构支持激励这样做。本次研讨会的目标是开发工具，以支持和鼓励增加实验行为科学的鲁棒性和普遍性。该会议致力于确定和开发所谓的“WEIRD人”问题的潜在解决方案：事实上，大多数实验行为科学研究都是与WEIRD人群（西方，受过教育，工业化，富裕的民主国家）的成员进行的。这些研究中的大部分未能推广到更广泛的人群，也未能捕捉到人类思维和行为模式的变化范围，这一发现迫切需要研究方法更具包容性。虽然世界各地的研究人员已经开发出有效的模型来克服这些限制，但对于大多数研究人员来说，实现强大的和可推广的实验行为研究存在重大障碍。 本次研讨会将汇集来自一系列学科的学者，他们的研究代表了如何克服这些障碍的积极案例研究。参与者渴望实现三个目标：1）开发工具和培训材料，以帮助研究人员增强其研究人群的多样性，2）开发基础设施解决方案，以连接不同背景和人群的研究人员，以及3）制定一套制度变革建议，以支持通过手稿，赠款和终身教职评审增强实验行为科学的多样性。