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"Good weird" are usually people who have a different sense of style, taste, dress etc but are still personable. "Bad weird" are usually people who don't get social cues and end up (typically accidentally) being offputting or out of sync with others.
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.
Summary. 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.
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...
Nov 2, 2023 · If you open the newspaper, turn on the TV or listen to gossip, the main thing you’re going to hear about is people doing bad things to one another. They’re lying, they’re cheating, they’re stealing, they’re killing.
Apr 15, 2020 · Turns out, they are not doing things very differently: In the 893 articles published in 2015 and 2016 in the top five cross-cultural psychology journals, a staggering 96.7% participants...
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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...
