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Yet high-profile medical research disproportionately favors those living in WEIRD countries. This major focus on WEIRD bodies is not only unrepresentative of humans today, but ignores how our species lived over most of its history. Human dispersals over many millennia have resulted in considerable local genetic and cultural differentiation.
- Michael D. Gurven, Daniel E. Lieberman
- 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.04.001
- 2020
- 2020/09
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.
Jul 20, 2021 · The world’s population does not split neatly into two groups, WEIRD and non-WEIRD people, argues Sakshi Ghai. Because the non-WEIRD brush does not do justice to the complexity of human lives ...
- Sakshi Ghai
- sg912@cam.ac.uk
- 2021
understanding human behavioral and psychological vari-ation. However, this target article is not about these peoples. It is about a truly unusual group: people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD)1 societies.In particular, itis about the Western, andmorespecificallyAmerican,undergraduateswhoform
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Sep 1, 2020 · Neither does WEIRD imply the absence of a shared human nature, but instead it is an invitation to place our understanding of human nature on firmer empirical ground; and finally, the WEIRD concept as was introduced by Henrich et al. (2010), is not a theoretical construct; rather it is a rhetorical device or a pointer that calls for new and better theorizing about the origins of the ...
- Coren Apicella, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich
- 2020
Jun 15, 2020 · WEIRD humans. In June 2010, human ... WEIRD people are unusual in how they find their way around, ... Several research fields chart the behaviour of non-human animals, including comparative ...
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Feb 4, 2022 · It’s now clear that much of what we find in social and developmental psychology textbooks is simply the “cultural psychology” of WEIRD people and represents a quantitative ethnographic description of how a particular population thinks, remembers, feels and reasons rather than a systematic study of human nature or our species’ evolved ...
