Psychology research from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries, especially from the United States, receives more scientific attention than research from non-WEIRD countries. We investigate one structural way that this inequality might be enacted: mentioning the sample's country in the article title. Analyzing the current publication practice of four leading social psychology journals (Study 1) and conducting two experiments with U.S. American and German students (Study 2), we show that the country is more often mentioned in articles with samples from non-WEIRD countries than those with samples from WEIRD countries (especially the United States) and that this practice is associated with less scientific attention. We propose that this phenomenon represents a (perhaps unintentional) form of structural discrimination, which can lead to underrepresentation and reduced impact of social psychological research done with non-WEIRD samples. We outline possible changes in the publication process that could challenge this phenomenon.

来自西方、受过教育、工业化、富裕和民主（WEIRD）国家，尤其是美国的心理学研究比来自非WEIRD国家的研究受到更多科学关注。我们调查了这种不平等可能发生的一种结构方式：在文章标题中提及样本所在的国家/地区。分析四家主要社会心理学期刊（研究 1）的当前出版实践，并对美国和德国学生进行两项实验（研究 2），我们表明，与来自非 WEIRD 国家的样本相比，该国在文章中更常被提及来自 WEIRD 国家（尤其是美国）的样本，并且这种做法与较少的科学关注有关。我们认为，这种现象代表了一种（可能是无意的）结构性歧视形式，这可能导致使用非 WEIRD 样本进行的社会心理学研究的代表性不足和影响降低。我们概述了可能挑战这种现象的出版过程中可能发生的变化。