Diversity

Question 1

what is the issue with samples?

Answer 1

Even after psychologists realized that samples in personality psychology were weak due to their focus on WEIRD populations, there is still unequal distribution

Question 2

what are some relevant percentages and who found them?

Answer 2

Thamalayer et al 2021

USA = 49%
English-speaking = 12%
Europe = 24%
Asia = 7%
Latin American, Africa, Middle East, Israel = 1% each

Question 3

what is the issue with having these types of samples?

Answer 3

psychological phenomena is not always cross-cultural

Question 4

what is one example of universal phenomena?

Answer 4

prosocial spending increase happiness around the world (Ankin et al. 2013)

Question 5

what is one example of non-universal phenomena?

Answer 5

For example, extraversion is a potent predictor of life satisfaction in the US and Canada, but less so in Germany, the UK and Japan

Question 6

what is another intersting finding by Thalamayer et al?

Answer 6

undergrad students (42%) and amazon mechanical turks ie paid survey takers (35%) made up most of the research in psych in 2021
→ which is again problematic since they don’t represent most of the population

Question 7

what do we know about race and ethnicity in psychological science?

Answer 7

black and latino populations continue to be underrepresented in psychology workforce and PhD programs

Question 8

what is the current positive change?

Answer 8

increasing amount of non-white psych grad students
9% increase in 3 yrs

Question 9

what about women?

Answer 9

acc to gruber et al 2021
–> the rate at which women entre the training pipeline in psych science is at a historic high

Question 10

women in applying for tenure track positions and grants

Answer 10

less likely to do so initially but if they do they are equally as likely/more likely to get them

Question 11

what does longitudinal data show about gaps in promotion and tenure rates?

Answer 11

closing

Question 12

do women still face any issues in the field?

Answer 12

YES
–> remain underrepresented among full professors
–> remain underrepresented in journals as 1st authors
–> lower citation indices
–> less likely to win senior-career awards

Question 13

what are 2 possible causes for the issues that women still face in the field?

Answer 13

• male gatekeeping
• system takes some time to catch up

Question 14

politics in psych science

Answer 14

• self reports suggest that only 10% identify as conservative

Question 15

what are some reasons for the low amount of conservative psychs

Answer 15

• self selection
• hostile climate (less tolerated)
• discrimination

Question 16

what is something worrying about politics in psych

Answer 16

A lot of psychologist professors self-reported that they would be more willing to discriminate against conservative leaning colleagues

–> and this was reported in 2015

Question 17

what are some ways to increase diversity?

Answer 17

• increase sample diversity
• replicate findings in non-WEIRD contexts
• move beyond WEIRD dichotomy –> intersectionality
• develop theory and findings in underrepresented countries and THEN move to West

Question 18

what are 2 things that are increasing the diveristy of psych data?

Answer 18

• big data
• big-team data

Question 19

big team data

Answer 19

multi-researcher collaborations
–> psychological science accelerator
- ALLS

Question 20

Psychological science accelerator

Answer 20

Globally distributed network of researchers that pool intellectual and material resources

Question 20

ALLS

Answer 20

Consortium-run, longitudinal study tracking ~1k representative young adults in Namibia, Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria and Ghana twice a year since 2022
Administered through large local collaborator networks