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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 3, 239-241 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/014616727600200306
© 1976 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Experimentation and College Students in Social Psychology Research

Kenneth L. Higbee

Brigham Young University

Wayne J. Lott

Brigham Young University

J. Peter Graves

Brigham Young University

In research published in four social psychology journals at the beginning of the 1970s, experimental research predominated over correlational research, and college students predominated over non-college samples. However, there was considerable variation among the different journals. It was suggested that the use of experimentation on college students does not necessarily make research ungeneralizable or irrelevant.


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