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

出于方便的原因，行为科学中的大多数实验研究都依赖大学生作为参与者，而且大多数都在北美和欧洲进行。因此，研究只是从有限的人类经验中进行抽样。这些研究的结果具有有限的概括性，未能反映跨不同文化和背景的全面的心理和行为现象。然而，从更广泛的人群中进行抽样是具有挑战性的，因为机会和机会有限，成本较高，而且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南，帮助研究人员克服更广泛抽样的障碍，并通过更好的制度支持来激励他们这样做。本研讨会的目标是开发工具，以支持和鼓励实验行为科学中增强稳健性和普适性。这次会议致力于确定和开发针对所谓“怪人”问题的潜在解决方案：大多数实验性行为科学研究都是与怪人群体(西方、受过教育的、工业化的、富有的民主政体)的成员一起进行的。这项研究的许多研究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变化的范围，这一发现迫切需要更具包容性的研究方法。尽管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，实现稳健和可推广的实验行为研究存在重大障碍。这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。与会者渴望实现三个目标：1)开发工具和培训材料，帮助研究人员增强其研究群体的多样性；2)开发基础设施解决方案，将不同背景和人群的研究人员联系起来；3)制定一套制度改革建议，以支持通过手稿、拨款和终身教职审查加强实验行为科学的多样性。

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.