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- Why the acronym WEIRD? 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.
- And yet you caution readers not to set up a WEIRD vs. non-WEIRD dichotomy as they read your book. Can you expand on that? That’s right. While WEIRD should raise people’s consciousness about psychological differences, it’s not meant to suggest a simplistic dichotomy or binary worldview.
- What are the big questions this book aims to answer? I’d say there are three, and they are interrelated. First, how can we explain the psychological diversity that has now been documented around the world?
- What’s the connection between culture and psychology? Our minds are frequently understood using a misleading digital computer metaphor, with our brains and psychological processes as the hardware and our cultures—our values, customs and know-how—as the software.
Oct 28, 2017 · Psychology. Attracting WEIRD Samples. Attracting representative samples requires thought. Posted October 28, 2017 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan. Key points. A large proportion of psychology studies...
Jun 16, 2024 · This article delves into the implications of the WEIRD bias in psychological research, examining its impact on the validity and generalizability of findings, and exploring ways to address these limitations.
- You Can't Prove Normality, and Its Definitions Are Constantly Updated
- Classical Definitions of Psychopathology
- Therapy Facilitates Making This Professional Opinion
- People Act Oddly Coping with Stressors and Can Easily Be Mislabeled as Deviant
- Many Casual Opinions About An Observation Are Misattributions
- What Is A Therapeutic Breakthrough?
The problem in mental health is you can’t prove you are normal, but for some reason, many seek to prove you are abnormal as a good excuse for odd behavior. Insanity is a legal term: not knowing the difference between right and wrong. At UVA law school, I participated in a law and mental health weekly seminar. A brother shot his other brother while ...
The "4Ds" of psychopathology are defined as deviance, dysfunction, distress, and danger. The problem is some of these factors are social constructs, and other factors are cultural or sub-cultural. There are also definitions of what constitutes abnormal behavior based on statistical frequency. This interpretive inference is unfair to the individual ...
Therapy often determines if strange or deviant behavior is a product of self, place, or both. My biasis "both." We all do certain things triggered by specific events. Often treatment is as simple as the sound advice, "Avoid person X or never enter place B." Society monetizes places to be odd, like painting your face in your team's colors at a colle...
We are all psychologically vulnerable to a worst-case scenario. If a tragedy happens, a person might act oddly to others who lack insight into the details, but once the facts are known, the same person is normal. The best way to explain this is through a parable (not from a real case) where, for example, a woman (who is grieving, but the observer l...
Another typical example of a "misattribution" or falsely assigning one reason when the actual reason has nothing to do with it. Your teenage son slams his hand hard down onto the kitchen table. Boom! The table reverberates. The dishes clatter. The boy’s father interrupts, “What are you so mad about?” The son raises his palm. There is a dead bug on ...
Therapy seeks to distinguish odd versus abnormal. A “therapeutic breakthrough” happens when a clinician knows the true roots of a choice or behavior. If sometimes you observe something really odd, you have plenty of company, but be careful labeling it as abnormal.
May 1, 2010 · They found that people from Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies — who represent as much as 80 percent of study participants, but only 12 percent of the world’s population — are not only unrepresentative of humans as a species, but on many measures they’re outliers.
May 8, 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...
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Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem has come to be widely acknowledged, yet there has been little progress toward making psychology more diverse.
