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Social & Emotional InfluenceMember ingredient

Cultural Bias

“Cultural bias” is an umbrella warning that a product, study or decision can treat one group's language, norms and experience as if they were universal.

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Toward a Psychology of Homo Sapiens: Making Psychological Science More Representative of the Human Population

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What it supports
The analysis found that research continued to draw on a narrow cultural base and often generalised beyond the population actually sampled.
Where it may not transfer
One journal and its reporting practices cannot represent all psychological science. Coding publication text identifies sampling and generalisation problems but does not specify which product design will work in a given community.
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