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1 paź 2024 · The use of the acronym "WEIRD" in psychology literature has reached a point where it almost parodies itself, with many researchers overusing the term to categorize and simplify diverse...
The acronym WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—aims to raise people’s consciousness about psychological differences and to emphasize that WEIRD people are but one unusual slice of humanity’s cultural diversity. WEIRD highlights the sampling bias present in studies conducted in cognitive science, behavioral ...
1 lut 2023 · In 2010, a paper by Henrich et al. coined the term WEIRD to describe a lack of diversity in research. WEIRD stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The acronym has been used in psychology classrooms and research and has been seen as a useful tool.
16 cze 2024 · The acronym WEIRD stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. This term was coined to highlight the demographic characteristics that dominate psychological research samples, particularly in the field of behavioral sciences.
1 wrz 2020 · Of course, the word “weird” was turned into an acronym precisely to de-exoticize the diversity of non-WEIRD populations by shining a light on the numerous social and psychological peculiarities of WEIRD populations, which stand out when one looks at them from a broader global and historical perspective.
8 maj 2013 · WEIRD is the phenomenon that plagues a lot of psychology and other social science studies: Their participants are overwhelming Western, educated, and from industrialized, rich, and democratic ...
10 lip 2010 · Henrich and colleagues use the acronym WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) to capture the distinctiveness of the typical subjects used in psychology experiments – university students in psychology classes – but I suspect that this acronym, however clever, fails to truly capture how odd these subjects are.
