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Jul 11, 2022 · Although the term WEIRD has become ubiquitous in psychology, change in response to the criticism that there is an overreliance on WEIRD samples has been slow to materialize.
Aug 12, 2024 · Extreme and minority views are often overrepresented in the media, making them appear to be more common and acceptable than they are. Weird-checking communicates what others actually believe and can disrupt these inflated perceptions of consensus.
Aug 2, 2024 · Highly educated upper-middle-class people are hugely overrepresented in the ranks of the national media and national politics, two labor forces with a lot of overlap—many journalists at prestige...
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.
Sep 1, 2020 · The original purpose of Henrich et al.'s (2010) WEIRD label was as a consciousness-raising device, to remind researchers that their participants, at least those most commonly used in psychological and behavioral experiments, are often not particularly representative of Homo sapiens.
- Coren Apicella, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich
- 2020
Jan 20, 2020 · The issue gained traction in 2010, when Joseph Henrich and two colleagues at the University of British Columbia marshaled evidence from dozens of studies to demonstrate that people who grew up in the so-called “WEIRD” societies often act very differently from people in other parts of the world.
Jul 11, 2019 · Q: Why do psychologists still study mostly WEIRDos? A: Many still assume that what we find in one population can be generalized to others, so why study other cultures? Cross-cultural work is difficult, tedious, and slow.
