title: Political diversity versus stimuli diversity: Alternative ways to improve social psychological science.
abstract: Instead of enhancing diversity in research groups, we suggest that in order to reduce biases in social psychological research a more basic formulation and systematic testing of theories is required. Following the important but often neglected ecological research approach would lead to systematic variation of stimuli and sometimes representative sampling of stimuli for specific environments.
authors.affiliation: Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. thomas.kessler@uni-jena.de http://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kessler
authors.affiliation: Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. jutta.proch@uni-jena.de http://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Jutta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Proch
authors.affiliation: Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. stefanie.hechler@uni-jena.de http://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Stefanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hechler
authors.affiliation: Social Psychology Department, Friedrich Schiller University, D-07743 Jena, Germany. larissa-abigail.naegler@uni-jena.de http://www.sozialpsychologie.uni-jena.de
authors.forename: Larissa A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Nägler
mesh_terms: D004463:Ecology; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D012942:Social Sciences