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Most saliently, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, which means we are overconfident, self-obsessed and even more suicide-prone. WEIRD people also tend to be highly analytical in their thinking. That is, we focus on individuals and their properties at the expense of relationships and backgrounds.
WEIRD is generally viewed as something that skews our understanding of human behavior. An analysis conducted by the researchers from the University of British Columbia finds that people from WEIRD societies not only represent as much as 80 percent of study participants, but are also outliers.
Jun 6, 2023 · Remember the term "WEIRD"? If you're not familiar with this quirky acronym, it stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. In the realm of psychology, this descriptor has...
Jun 16, 2024 · The WEIRD bias in psychological research presents significant challenges to the validity and generalizability of findings. By recognizing and addressing this bias, researchers can develop a more inclusive and accurate understanding of human behavior.
- 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.
Jan 20, 2020 · Debates about the diversity of psychology subjects reached a peak around 2010, when a widely read paper charged that an overreliance on research from Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies — often shortened to the acronym “WEIRD” — amounted to a crisis for the behavioral sciences. At the time, it seemed ...
