The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena
[COMPLETE COMMENTARY READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the publisher's PDF at SAGE. The paper states that R. Schimmelpfennig and R. Spicer share first authorship, and Muthukrishna, Schimmelpfennig and Spicer are all listed as corresponding; credit Schimmelpfennig first and note the shared first authorship] Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J. M., Gervais, W. M., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). 'The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena.' Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1-6. doi:10.1177/25152459231225163. THE ANSWER TO THE COUNTER-CASE, AND IT IS THIS ARTICLE'S ARGUMENT ARRIVING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION. On samples: despite the large sample and number of sites, ML2's samples were culturally relatively homogeneous; the majority of the subject pool were from the United States (39%) or other WEIRD countries; and because researchers and their subject pools self-selected into the project, some level of selection bias is likely. THE KEY PASSAGE: the participants in ML2 were mostly recruited from university subject pools and Amazon's Mechanical Turk, samples likely skewed toward higher education, digital literacy, English proficiency and socioeconomic status, especially in less WEIRD countries; higher formal education correlates with greater cultural alignment with the United States (White & Muthukrishna, 2023); so despite sampling across 36 countries, the cross-cultural variation in many samples may have been minimal. They note that ML2 had not planned to investigate the moderating role of culture and did so in an exploratory analysis after the fact. On measurement: ML2 assessed cultural moderation by decomposing the letters of the WEIRD
[COMPLETE COMMENTARY READ IN FULL AT SOURCE, the publisher's PDF at SAGE. The paper states that R. Schimmelpfennig and R. Spicer share first authorship, and Muthukrishna, Schimmelpfennig and Spicer are all listed as corresponding; credit Schimmelpfennig first and note the shared first authorship] Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J. M., Gervais, W. M., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). 'The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena.' Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1-6. doi:10.1177/25152459231225163. THE ANSWER TO THE COUNTER-CASE, AND IT IS THIS ARTICLE'S ARGUMENT ARRIVING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION. On samples: despite the large sample and number of sites, ML2's samples were culturally relatively homogeneous; the majority of the subject pool were from the United States (39%) or other WEIRD countries; and because researchers and their subject pools self-selected into the project, some level of selection bias is likely. THE KEY PASSAGE: the participants in ML2 were mostly recruited from university subject pools and Amazon's Mechanical Turk, samples likely skewed toward higher education, digital literacy, English proficiency and socioeconomic status, especially in less WEIRD countries; higher formal education correlates with greater cultural alignment with the United States (White & Muthukrishna, 2023); so despite sampling across 36 countries, the cross-cultural variation in many samples may have been minimal. They note that ML2 had not planned to investigate the moderating role of culture and did so in an exploratory analysis after the fact. On measurement: ML2 assessed cultural moderation by decomposing the letters of the WEIRD
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Schimmelpfennig, R., Spicer, R., White, C. J. M., Gervais, W. M., Norenzayan, A., Heine, S., Henrich, J., & Muthukrishna, M. (2024). The Moderating Role of Culture in the Generalizability of Psychological Phenomena. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(1), 1-6. doi:10.1177/25152459231225163