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ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2026

Recruitment Strategies Bias Sampling and Shape Replicability.

Thomas I Vaughan-Johnston, Faizan Imtiaz, Gabriella Avila Patro, Samantha Xiao Shang, Leandre Fabrigar, Li-Jun Ji

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Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Thomas I Vaughan-JohnstonCardiff University, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4682-481X
Faizan ImtiazTowson University, MD, USA.
Gabriella Avila PatroQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Samantha Xiao ShangQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Leandre FabrigarQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Li-Jun JiQueen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Replicating psychological research has become a central concern for psychologists. Although attention has been paid to the possibility of heterogeneous populations driving replication success/failure, the heterogeneous recruitment strategies researchers use to draw samples from those populations are often overlooked. Yet recruitment strategies may bias the participants who show up and shape replication results. We examine this idea through several unique paradigms (sampling North American university students,

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PMCPMC13022030

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