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1. weirdpeople.fas.harvard.edu › qa-weirdQ&A on WEIRD | THE WEIRDEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

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   A Q&A WITH JOSEPH HENRICH. 1. Why the acronym WEIRD? 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.

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2. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogPsychology's WEIRD Problem | Psychology Today

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   Apr 15, 2020 · How can psychology call itself the science of human behaviour if it studies only a select few?

3. www.apa.org › monitor › 2010Are your findings 'WEIRD'?

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   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.

4. www.cambridge.org › core › elementsPsychology's WEIRD Problems - Cambridge University Press ...

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   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.

5. www.sciencedirect.com › science › articleBeyond WEIRD: A review of the last decade and a look ahead to ...

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   Sep 1, 2020 · Marking a decade since the publication of “The weirdest people in the world,” this special issue is dedicated to exploring how to improve the quality of the science produced by the interdisciplinary field of evolution and human behavior.

   • Author: Coren Apicella, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich

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6. www.psychologytoday.com › us › blogWEIRD Science: We Are the Weirdest People in the World

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   Dec 29, 2010 · The implications of WEIRD science extend globally, the researchers say. For example, exporting our home-brewed brands of democracy and education and our egocentric models of mental illness may...

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   • A Q&A WITH JOSEPH HENRICH 1. Why the acronym WEIRD? 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.

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   Are weird people unrepresentative of humans as a species?

   • 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.

   Are your findings 'WEIRD'? - American Psychological Association (APA)

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   What personality traits do weird people have?

   • 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.

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   Why are weird people unrepresentative of human nature?

   • Cultural factors are then thought to explain our psychological WEIRDness, and consequently to explain why WEIRD people have become outliers and unrepresentative of human psychology more generally: cultural factors have made WEIRD people unrepresentative of universal (i.e., biological) human nature.

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8. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Eccentricity_(behavior)Eccentricity (behavior) - Wikipedia

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   Eccentricity (also called quirkiness) is an unusual or odd behavior on the part of an individual. This behavior would typically be perceived as unusual or unnecessary, without being demonstrably maladaptive.