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Toward a psychology of Homo sapiens: Making psychological science more representative of the human population

Mostafa Salari Rad, Alison Jane Martingano, and Jeremy Ginges
  1. aDepartment of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011;
  2. bDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540

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PNAS November 6, 2018 115 (45) 11401-11405; first published November 5, 2018; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721165115
Mostafa Salari Rad
aDepartment of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011;
bDepartment of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540
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Alison Jane Martingano
aDepartment of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011;
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Jeremy Ginges
aDepartment of Psychology, New School for Social Research, New York, NY 10011;
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  • For correspondence: gingesj@newschool.edu
  1. Edited by Douglas L. Medin, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, and approved July 25, 2018 (received for review January 16, 2018)

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    Proportion of samples with demographic information reported in samples used in all studies published in Psychological Science in 2014.

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    National location of samples published in Psychological Science in 2014

    RegionUnited StatesNon-US English-speaking countriesEuropeIsraelAsiaAfricaLatin AmericaUnknown
    No. of samples227 (50.8%)53 (11.9%)70 (15.7%)20 (4.4%)17 (3.9%)6 (1.3%)3 (0.6%)51 (11.4%)
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    National location of samples published in the last three issues of Psychological Science in 2017

    RegionUnited StatesNon-US English-speaking countriesEuropeIsraelAsiaAfricaLatin AmericaUnknown*
    No. of samples48† (51.1%)9 (9.9%)9† (9.9%)3 (3.2%)7‡ (6.6%)0 (0%)0 (0%)22 (23.4%)
    • ↵* The “Unknown” group contains samples that were obtained from MTurk, but it was unclear whether the region was the United States, India, or other countries. It also contains some students (based on compensation data), but it is unclear which school or/and which region these students were from.

    • ↵† One study used participants from both the United States and Germany, and it is coded twice in this table.

    • ↵‡ One study had participants from China and Korea, and it is coded twice in this table.

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