Single paper meta-analysis is unavoidable

IF 6.1 2区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Journal of Consumer Psychology Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI:10.1002/jcpy.1462

Blakeley B. McShane, Ulf Böckenholt

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Abstract

We advocate that the multiple studies of a common phenomenon that are featured in a typical behavioral research paper be jointly analyzed to provide a statistical summary of the set of studies as a whole. Indeed, we view such single paper meta-analysis as unavoidable in typical behavioral research papers because (i) such papers feature multiple studies of a common phenomenon, (ii) such papers contain summaries of those studies, and (iii) statistical summaries of studies (i.e., meta-analyses) are superior to non-statistical summaries of them. Nonetheless, the current dominant practice is for such papers to feature separate statistical analyses of the data from each of the studies but to contain a non-statistical summary of the multiple studies rather than a statistical summary. We believe that this is regrettable and therefore aim to rectify matters. Consequently, we review some considerations about meta-analysis and statistical analysis more broadly; compare single paper meta-analysis to traditional meta-analysis and illustrate its benefits via a case study; discuss and dismiss concern about single paper meta-analysis; and discuss single paper meta-analysis and the review process.

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单篇论文荟萃分析是不可避免的

我们主张对一篇典型的行为研究论文中出现的一个共同现象的多项研究进行联合分析，以提供一组研究的总体统计总结。事实上，我们认为在典型的行为研究论文中，这样的单论文荟萃分析是不可避免的，因为(i)这样的论文以一个共同现象的多个研究为特征，（ii）这样的论文包含这些研究的摘要，（iii）研究的统计摘要（即荟萃分析）优于它们的非统计摘要。尽管如此，目前的主流做法是，这类论文对每项研究的数据进行单独的统计分析，但包含多项研究的非统计摘要，而不是统计摘要。我们认为这是令人遗憾的，因此我们打算纠正这一问题。因此，我们更广泛地回顾了有关元分析和统计分析的一些考虑因素；将单篇论文元分析与传统元分析进行比较，并通过案例分析说明其优点；讨论并消除对单篇论文荟萃分析的担忧；并讨论单篇论文的元分析和评审过程。

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Journal of Consumer Psychology Multiple-

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8.40

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14.60%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Consumer Psychology is devoted to psychological perspectives on the study of the consumer. It publishes articles that contribute both theoretically and empirically to an understanding of psychological processes underlying consumers thoughts, feelings, decisions, and behaviors. Areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to, consumer judgment and decision processes, attitude formation and change, reactions to persuasive communications, affective experiences, consumer information processing, consumer-brand relationships, affective, cognitive, and motivational determinants of consumer behavior, family and group decision processes, and cultural and individual differences in consumer behavior.