众包,心理学家将其应用到实验心理学中,并取得一定成果。众包比直接施测与本科生更加经济且更具多样性,相关研究人员运用众包方式重复了电车实验和公共物品游戏两项经典实验,研究范围更加全球化,得到了新结论。虽然因报酬问题受到争议,但其前景已受到不同领域科学家们的广泛关注。
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Experimental psychology
实验心理学
The roar of the crowd
人群的咆哮
Crowdsourcing is transforming the science of psychology
众包正在改变社会心理学
May 26th 2012
ACCORDING to Joseph Henrich and his colleagues at the Universityof British Columbia, most undergraduates are WEIRD. Those who teach them might well agree. But Dr Henrich did not intend the term as an insult when he popularised it in a paper published in Behavioral and Brain Sciences in 2010. Instead, he was proposing an acronym: Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and Democratic.
据英属哥伦比亚大学的约瑟夫·亨利奇及其同事称,大多数本科生是“古怪的”。他们的老师会认同这一说法,但当2010年,亨利奇博士将“古怪”一词用于发表在《行为与大脑科学》上的论文中时,并无冒犯之意。而且他提出了一个新的缩写WEIRD,表示:西方、教育、工业化、发达、民主。
One reason these things matter is that undergraduates are also psychology’s laboratory rats. Incentivised by rewards, in the form of money or course credits, they will do the human equivalents of running mazes and pressing the levers in Skinner boxes until the cows come home.
其中一个重要原因是本科生成为了心理学家们的实验鼠。通过金钱或学分的奖励作为激励,他们将不停歇地上演人类版的小鼠走迷津和斯金纳箱中的小鼠按杠杆实验。