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Sep 8, 2020 · “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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May 27, 2021 · Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020, 704 pp., $35. ISBN: 9780374173227 (Hardb...
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Oct 5, 2021 · Joseph Henrich shows how strange and exceptional Western society is when compared with most of the world, and links it with features of the WEIRD brain." —John Barton, author of A History of the Bible
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May 27, 2021 · Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, we WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist and analytical. We aim to be ‘ourselves’ across contexts and see inconsistencies in others as hypocrisy rather than flexibility.
"The Weirdest People in the World is a novel and fascinating look at our democratic western societies. The book presents a wealth of evidence that cultural learning and specific cultural rules of kinship relations generated the psychological foundations underlying the economic success of “the West”.
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. WEIRD highlights the sampling bias present in studies conducted in cognitive science, behavioral ...
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In The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $35), he melds multiple disciplines to reinterpret the distinctive psychology of the human West, in light of historical changes in kinship relations, the evolution of faiths, and more. From the first chapter:
