Workshop: Enhancing robust and generalizable experimental behavioral science

本次研讨会的目标是增加实验行为科学的鲁棒性和普遍性。会议致力于解决所谓的“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，并且发现这些研究中的大部分未能推广到更广泛的人群。一些领域对这种有据可查的抽样偏差给予了很大关注，但由于缺乏关于如何解决这一问题的结构化指导，要求更广泛的抽样本身并不有效。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，并强调了这样做的好处。研讨会的目标是对破坏多样性的抑制因素和支持便利性和惰性而不是良好科学实践的激励结构进行系统分析。将制定一项行动计划，通过为研究人员提供更具体的指导来解决和改善这些问题。

The goal of this workshop is to increase robustness and generalizability of the experimental behavioral sciences. The meeting is dedicated to addressing 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) and the discovery that much of this research fails to generalize to broader populations. There has been much attention paid in some fields to this well-documented sampling bias however calls for broader sampling by themselves have not been effective in the absence of structured guidance on how to address this problem. This workshop will bring together scholars from a range of disciplines whose research represents positive case studies of how to overcome these barriers and highlights the benefits of doing so. The goal of the workshop is to conduct a systematic analysis of disincentives undermining diversity and incentive structures supporting convenience and inertia over good science practices. An action plan will be developed for addressing and ameliorating these issues through more specific guidance for researchers.