TY - JOUR
T1 - Implications of research staff demographics for psychological science
AU - Does, Serena
AU - Ellemers, N
AU - Dovidio, J. F.
AU - Norman, Jasmine B.
AU - Mentovich, Avital
AU - vander Lee, R.
AU - Goff, P.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - Long-standing research traditions in psychology have established the fundamental impact of social categories, such as race and gender, on people’s perceptions of themselves and others, as well as on general human cognition and behavior. However, there is a general tendency to ignore research staff demographics (e.g., researchers’ race and gender) in research development and research reports. Variation in research staff demographics can exert systematic and scientifically informative influences on results from psychological research. Consequently, research staff demographics need to be considered, studied, and/or reported, along with how these demographics were allowed to vary across participants or conditions (e.g., random assignment, matched with participant demographics, or included as a factor in the experimental design). In addition to providing an overview of multidisciplinary evidence of research staff demographics effects, it is discussed how research staff demographics might influence research findings through (a) ingroup versus outgroup effects, (b) stereotype and (implicit) bias effects, and (c) priming and social tuning effects. Finally, an overview of recommended considerations is included (see Appendix) to help illustrate how to systematically incorporate relevant research staff demographics in psychological science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
AB - Long-standing research traditions in psychology have established the fundamental impact of social categories, such as race and gender, on people’s perceptions of themselves and others, as well as on general human cognition and behavior. However, there is a general tendency to ignore research staff demographics (e.g., researchers’ race and gender) in research development and research reports. Variation in research staff demographics can exert systematic and scientifically informative influences on results from psychological research. Consequently, research staff demographics need to be considered, studied, and/or reported, along with how these demographics were allowed to vary across participants or conditions (e.g., random assignment, matched with participant demographics, or included as a factor in the experimental design). In addition to providing an overview of multidisciplinary evidence of research staff demographics effects, it is discussed how research staff demographics might influence research findings through (a) ingroup versus outgroup effects, (b) stereotype and (implicit) bias effects, and (c) priming and social tuning effects. Finally, an overview of recommended considerations is included (see Appendix) to help illustrate how to systematically incorporate relevant research staff demographics in psychological science. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)
KW - Demographics
KW - Experimenter effects
KW - Generalizability
KW - Intergroup processes
KW - Validity
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U2 - 10.1037/amp0000199
DO - 10.1037/amp0000199
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85042559847
SN - 0003-066X
VL - 73
SP - 639
EP - 650
JO - American Psychologist
JF - American Psychologist
IS - 5
ER -