Human psychology and behavioral studies overlook 85 percent of people

Specifically, the vast majority of what we know about human psychology and behavior comes from studies conducted with a narrow slice of humanity—college students, middle-class respondents living near universities, and highly educated residents of wealthy, industrialized, and democratic nations. Unfortunately, in those rare cases where researchers have reached out to a broader range of humanity, they frequently find that the “usual suspects” most often included as participants in psychology studies are actually outliers. To address these potentially vast gaps in our understanding of human psychology and behavior, researchers have proposed a number of solutions.

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