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   Sep 8, 2020 · Harvard University’s Joseph Henrich, Chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, delivers a bold, epic investigation into the development of the Western mind, global psychological diversity, and its impact on the world.

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   Sep 6, 2020 · Review: ‘The WEIRDest People in the World,’ by Joseph Henrich - The Atlantic. Books. A New Theory of Western Civilization. Could a marriage policy first pursued by the Catholic Church a...

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   ‘The most absorbing, provocative and compelling book I have read in a long time. Joseph Henrich’s thrilling exposé of cultural variety and evolution is grounded in meticulous science, and his arguments go beyond the milestone of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel.

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   Book Review in The New York Times. January 24, 2021. Click here to read the full book review for WEIRDest People in the World, featured in The New York Times and written by American philosopher, writer, and cognitive scientist, Daniel Dennett. Read more.

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   Sep 8, 2020 · Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves―their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations―over their relationships and social roles.

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   Sep 8, 2020 · The WEIRDest People In The World: How The West Became Psychologically Peculiar And Particularly Prosperous. A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.

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   • The WEIRDest People in the World is definitely a long book. But it is really worthwhile. It does not just provide a new and compelling explanation of the rise of the West, it also makes one think about how many aspects of psychology that seem universal are really contingent and how these can change and adapt over time.

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   • The book 'The Weirdest People in the World is good for providing a novel and fascinating look at our democratic western societies'. It presents evidence on how cultural learning and specific cultural rules of kinship relations generated the psychological foundations underlying the economic success of ‘the West’.

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   Are weird people psychologically peculiar?

   • If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar. Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles.

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   Is the weirdest people in the world a sequel?

   • The WEIRDest People in the World is effectively a sequel (but you need not read The Secret of Our Success first as the ideas are repeated/summarized in the new book) that zooms in on the last roughly 1,500 years to understand why the West was so successful in its rapid growth and conquest of much of the rest of the world.

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   • “The WEIRDest People in the World” will undoubtedly and deservedly become a classic in sociology, despite the fact that Henrichs’ thesis per se is not particularly new.

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   Sep 8, 2020 · In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He...