Psychology should generalize from — not just to — Africa

Adetula, Adeyemi; Forscher, Patrick S.; Basnight-Brown, Dana; Azouaghe, Soufian; IJzerman, Hans

doi:10.1038/s44159-022-00070-y

Cited by 52 publications

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“…Future work can attempt to replicate these findings with low digital literacy populations. Moreover, the present study can also be replicated in countries of the Global North (Adetula et al, 2022) to understand how individuals from more digitally sophisticated and literate countries respond to incentives and how that influences their sharing of (mis)information online.…”

Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Does Incentivization Promote Sharing “True” Content Online?

Puthillam¹,

Kapoor²,

Rezaei³

et al. 2022

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Information sharing is often driven by social, legal, and financial incentives. To understand online information-sharing behaviour, the present study assessed whether incentivizing people to share “good” and factual content and disincentivizing the sharing of misinformation influenced information sharing. A mock social media platform was created where participants were shown posts that they could share, react to (using emojis), or choose ‘read more’ to get more information. Participants (N = 908) were divided into two groups where they received either financial (micropayments) or social (followers) incentives for each true information they shared. Results showed that incentivization, regardless of the type, encouraged people to share more true information; however, the two incentivised groups did not differ in their sharing behaviour, of all posts, regardless of veracity. Further, older and more educated individuals and those with a right-leaning political ideology were more likely to share posts, with the latter being more likely to react to posts as well. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

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Section: Limitations and Future Directionsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Does Incentivization Promote Sharing “True” Content Online?

Puthillam¹,

Kapoor²,

Rezaei³

et al. 2022

Preprint

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“…Generalize from, not just to, marginalized groups. Psychological research on marginalized group members often examines how they deviate from dominant group members, or whether theories developed with dominant groups generalize to marginalized groups (e.g., testing whether Western psychological theories generalize to African people, who are marginalized in psychological research; see Adetula et al, 2022). As Adetula et al argue, these attempts to understand non-WEIRD groups by generalizing dominant psychological theories-which are based on ideas and data from dominant group members-rather than generating theories and knowledge from marginalized perspectives, creates significant gaps in our understanding.…”

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confidence: 99%

Feminist Social Vision: Seeing Through the Lens of Marginalized Perceivers

Oswald

Adams

2022

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Social vision research, which examines, in part, how humans visually perceive social stimuli, is well-positioned to improve understandings of social inequality. However, social vision research has rarely prioritized the perspectives of marginalized group members. We offer a theoretical argument for diversifying understandings of social perceptual processes by centering marginalized perspectives. We examine (a) how social vision researchers frame their research questions and who these framings prioritize and (b) how perceptual processes (person perception; people perception; perception of social objects) are linked to group membership and thus comprehensively understanding these processes necessitates attention to marginalized perceivers. We discuss how social vision research translates into theoretical advances and to action for reducing negative intergroup consequences (e.g., prejudice). The purpose of this article is to delineate how prioritizing marginalized perspectives in social vision research could develop novel questions, bridge theoretical gaps, and elevate social vision’s translational impact to improve outcomes for marginalized groups.

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“…This is a sorry state for a scientific discipline that claims to be the universal science of human behavior. It goes without saying that if psychology wants to fulfill this promise, it must expand its cultural horizons outside of the US (see Adetula et al, 2022;Forscher et al, 2021;Ijzerman et al, 2021;Silan et al, 2021). To achieve this, psychology needs big research teams involving researchers from diverse cultural backgrounds.…”

Section: Big Team Science In Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychology’s Reform Movement Needs a Reconceptualization of Scientific Expertise

Tunç¹,

Tunç²

2022

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Psychology’s credibility crisis showed that science may dramatically fail to accomplish self-correction, at least for an extended period of time. In our opinion, one reason for this may be that the agent who will implement self-correction in science, that is, the scientific expert, is not defined with a view to scientific self-correction. According to the prevailing conception of expertise which we call the old model, an expert is an individual who has superior knowledge and skills in a particular domain. This individualist emphasis of the old model of expertise contradicts the social nature of science and the necessarily distributed nature of self-correction. The old model also undermines self-correction because it conceives expertise as something that is possessed, not performed, thus largely ignoring the epistemic responsibility of experts. We compare the old model with the extended virtue model of expertise, which defines an expert as a reliable informant in a scientific domain. A reliable informant is not necessarily an isolated individual, it can also be a research consortium or, in some respects, a whole research field. Being a reliable informant equally requires being competent and responsible, so the extended virtue model is well aligned with the goal of self-correction. We examine various issues associated with scientific self-correction such as big team science, misaligned incentives, and fraud/questionable research practices. We conclude that a revolutionary shift in how we model expertise is a must for facilitating progress in increasing the credibility of psychological science.

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Psychology should generalize from — not just to — Africa

Cited by 52 publications

References 7 publications

Does Incentivization Promote Sharing “True” Content Online?

Does Incentivization Promote Sharing “True” Content Online?

Feminist Social Vision: Seeing Through the Lens of Marginalized Perceivers

Psychology’s Reform Movement Needs a Reconceptualization of Scientific Expertise

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