Are You WEIRD?
Who are WEIRD? And, why should we know about these WEIRD people?
WEIRD actually refers to individuals from primarily…
Western
Educated
Industrialized
Rich
Democratic
…countries who are often used by social scientists as research subjects. WEIRDs are convenient participants for social science researcher and WEIRDs tend to be college students.
What is particularly weird about WEIRDs is that they represent only 12% of the world population and vary from the remaining 88% of the world on ideas of…
fairness
decision making
moral reasoning
optical illusions
..all things...