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ReviewPerspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2017

The Specificity Principle in Acculturation Science.

Marc H Bornstein

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Review in Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

80 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Marc H BornsteinChild and Family Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.

Funding

Child and Family Development across the First Two+ Decades of LifeZIAHD001119 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BORNSTEIN, MARC H · 2009 to 2019
$20.9M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD001119
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The specificity principle in acculturation science asserts that specific setting conditions of specific people at specific times moderate specific domains in acculturation by specific processes. Our understanding of acculturation depends critically on what is studied where, in whom, how, and when. This article defines, explains, and illustrates the specificity principle in acculturation science. Research hypotheses about acculturation can be more adequately tested, inconsistencies and discrepancies in the acculturation literature can be satisfactorily resolved, acculturation interventions can be tailored to be more successful, and acculturation policies can be brought to new levels of effectiveness if the specificity principle that governs acculturation science is more widely recognized.

Indexed as

AcculturationEmigrants and ImmigrantsHumansacculturationcultureimmigrantmigrationspecificity

Identifiers

PMID28073331
PMCPMC5234695

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