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ArticleInternational journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie2026

WEIRD but Also Inconsistent: An Analysis of the Reporting Practices of Participant Samples Across Five Areas of Psychology.

Leah Petrutiu, Megan E Birney, Richard Cooke, Simon Stewart

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Article in International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie, 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. WEIRD but Also Inconsistent: An Analysis of the Reporting Practices of Participant Samples Across Five Areas of Psychology.International journal of psychology : Journal international de psychologie · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Leah PetrutiuSchool of Health, Education, Policing, & Sciences, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0031-8377
Megan E BirneySchool of Education, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6786-6322
Richard CookeSchool of Health, Education, Policing, & Sciences, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0476-6284
Simon StewartSchool of Health, Education, Policing, & Sciences, University of Staffordshire, Stoke-On-Trent, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we systematically investigate the Methods sections of five journals covering core areas of Psychology: Social, health, clinical, developmental, and general psychological science. Journals were published by the British Psychology Society between January 2021 and December 2023 (N

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Periodicals as TopicPsychologyHumansgeneralisabilitymethodologyunder‐representationWEIRD science

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PMID41607094
PMCPMC12852971

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