The Weirdest People in the World

Psychology Studies Sample WEIRD Humans

[This paper is] about another exotic group: people from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD)societies. In particular, it’s about the Western, and more specifically American, undergraduates who form the bulk of the database in the experimental branches of psychology, cognitive science, and…

Jun 27, 2013 1

• bias
• experiment
• homo sapiens
• humanity
• psychology
• sampling