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Learn about the psychological diversity of human populations and the cultural evolution of WEIRD societies from Joseph Henrich, a cognitive scientist and author of The WEIRDEST People in the World. Find out how WEIRD people are different, why they matter, and what they reveal about human nature and history.
1 maj 2010 · A review of comparative social and behavioral science studies finds that people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies are not representative of humans as a species. The article suggests that researchers should seek more diverse and representative study participants to avoid biased conclusions.
15 kwi 2020 · Why is psychology based on a small and homogenous group of people? How does culture affect human biology, behavior, and cognition? Learn about the WEIRD problem and its implications for the science of human behavior.
14 cze 2021 · 10 of the Most Surprising Findings in Psychology. How behavioral science regularly teaches us something new. Posted June 14, 2021|Reviewed by Davia Sills. Key points. Psychology is regularly...
9 lip 2012 · Here are 10 even weirder psychology studies that have mostly been published in academic journals, some more reputable than others… 1. Cerebral activation during micturation in normal men. Nour et al. (2000) had people urinating in a PET scanner. And from this they tell us:
21 maj 2020 · Decades of psychological research designed to uncover truths about human psychology may have instead uncovered truths about a thin slice of our species—people who live in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) nations (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010).
24 lip 2024 · WEIRD is a backronym that stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It was coined in 2010 to label the populations most commonly sampled by researchers in the experimental behavioral sciences, including psychologists, cognitive scientists, and economists.
