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Political diversity versus stimuli diversity: Alternative ways to improve social psychological science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2015

Thomas Kessler ,
Jutta Proch ,
Stefanie Hechler  and
Larissa A. Nägler
Thomas Kessler
Affiliation:
Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. thomas.kessler@uni-jena.dejutta.proch@uni-jena.destefanie.hechler@uni-jena.delarissa-abigail.naegler@uni-jena.dehttp://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
Jutta Proch
Affiliation:
Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. thomas.kessler@uni-jena.dejutta.proch@uni-jena.destefanie.hechler@uni-jena.delarissa-abigail.naegler@uni-jena.dehttp://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
Stefanie Hechler
Affiliation:
Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. thomas.kessler@uni-jena.dejutta.proch@uni-jena.destefanie.hechler@uni-jena.delarissa-abigail.naegler@uni-jena.dehttp://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
Larissa A. Nägler
Affiliation:
Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. thomas.kessler@uni-jena.dejutta.proch@uni-jena.destefanie.hechler@uni-jena.delarissa-abigail.naegler@uni-jena.dehttp://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
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Abstract

Instead of enhancing diversity in research groups, we suggest that in order to reduce biases in social psychological research a more basic formulation and systematic testing of theories is required. Following the important but often neglected ecological research approach would lead to systematic variation of stimuli and sometimes representative sampling of stimuli for specific environments.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 38 , 2015 , e148
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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