To understand human psychology, behavioural scientists must stop doing most of their experiments on Westerners, argue Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan.
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Henrich, J., Heine, S. & Norenzayan, A. Most people are not WEIRD. Nature 466, 29 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/466029a
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oliver elbs
Great article indeed, because it also shows the extreme WEIRD bias in cognitive neurobiology (especially with regard to pooled, statistically averaged and smoothed fMRI brain maps).
When you even read the letter by Vittorio Sgaramella on the individual human body being a multicellular conglomerate with NOT IDENTICAL GENOMES in the cells (in this week's issue of "Science", see http://www.sciencemag.org/c... ), you can even doubt whether there is some "human body", and some "human nature" at all --- or only some extremely diverse individual cells (and bodies) that happen to be MORE OR LESS "similar" (Ludwig Wittgenstein) to each other within some loosely defined population of H. sapiens...
Hence, weird and stubborn political and sociological concepts, memes, and words (circulating within some "masses" and "the mass media") like "Afroamericans", "Jews", "Americans", etc. only remain to be laughed at... (but alas, only by some very few understanding researchers or map-makers).
Sarah Rain
People don?t think you?re weird if you believe in a god. Especially if it?s the Christian God. What country do you live in?
Here in the USA, people are OUTRAGED if you don?t believe in a god. You even get death threats on occasion, on the internet. People like George W Bush think that Atheists shouldn?t be allowed to be citizens .