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AI Tools Can Enhance, Not Threaten, Generalizability

2025-11-01

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<p>In their recent Trends in Cognitive Sciences (TiCS) opinion piece, Crockett and Messeri argue that AI surrogates perpetuate generalizability problems in cognitive science by entrenching WEIRD samples and decontextualized tasks. Their critique is correct but incomplete: it conflates large language models (LLMs) as surrogates that replace participants with LLMs as tools that make diverse human research more tract...

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Literature Corpus work: 83253f23-521a-5a25-8686-eb1ecefc63c3
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/68uyk_v1

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