Psychological Research Conducted In WEIRD Nations May Not Apply To Global PopulationsA new University of British Columbia study says that an overreliance on research subjects from the US and other Western nations can produce false claims about human psychology and behavior because their psychological ...
WEIRD was initially a useful reminder of the bias toward certain demographics in psychological research. Psychology as a field should instead adopt a practice of specifying the populations and regions under study. The acronym "WEIRD," which stands for Western, educated, industrial...
Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) population demographics. The findings from these studies are effective in elucidating the motivations of WEIRD populations but disregard the cultural, social, affective, and cognitive differences between WEIRD and non-WEIRD peoples. This means that ...
In contrast, Krys, de Almeida, Wasiel, & Vignoles, 2024 criticize the disproportionate focus on WEIRD culture in behavioral science and the bias of favoring Confucian East Asian studies in the context of non-WEIRD cross-cultural psychology. As FW is a behavioral and cultural phenomenon, Krys,...
knowledge. Research generated from WEIRD populations has been, and continues to be, treated asuniversal, even though it captures only a slice of all human experience, and anarrowslice, at that [5]. Early research [1,4] and more recent reviews [5,6,7] covering work in psychology, ...
Yet, on the other edge, is the potential for interference from populations that tend to be more idealistic and want to argue about right and wrong for all concerned. What the science community doesn’t seem to understand is that idealism and altruism are regarded by oligarchy as completely ...
Instead, the factors were merely identified, and Vignoles and colleagues made sure to investigate them in many different populations, 33 of which happened to come from the same individual nations. It is important to note, however, that one of the seven Vignoles et al. factors (self-interest...
We found that RCTs on the efficacy of PPIs are still predominately conducted in western countries, which accounted for 78.2% of the studies. All these countries are highly industrialized and democratic, and study populations are often highly educated and have a high income. However, there has ...
The author says that experimental findings from various disciplines show considerable variation among human populations in various domains.doi:10.1038/466029aHenrich, JosephHeine, Steven J.Norenzayan, AraNatureHenrich J, Heine SJ, Norenzayan A (2010) Most people are not WEIRD . Nature 466 : 29–...
WEIRD populations, or those categorized as Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic, are sampled in the majority of quantitative human subjects research. Although this oversampling is criticized in some corners of social science research, it is not always clear what we are critiquing....