Much has been written about psychology's reliance on WEIRD samples. "WEIRD" is an acronym coined by Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan: samples that are drawn from populations that are White, Educated ...

Early psychology research, Simons points out, often focused on basic behaviors that were unlikely to be influenced by culture or environment. ... 94 percent focused exclusively on WEIRD samples.

For decades, consensus among psychologists has held that a group of five personality traits — or a slight variation thereof — universally define the ...

Beginning in the early 20th century, psychology researchers—who, in the field’s first decades, had often experimented on themselves—began to seek larger samples.

He focuses on two examples from his research with the Tsimane. The first involves the Big Five. “Part of why this became fascinating to study was because it doesn’t take long to realize there really ...

Sample diversity and socioecological theory, he argues are essential to improving the integrity and explanatory power of the social sciences. Among the social sciences, he adds, psychology ...

"The foundations of human psychology and behavior have been built almost exclusively on research conducted on subjects from WEIRD societies," says UBC Psychology and Economics Prof. Joe Henrich ...

The WEIRD issue has been talked about in psychology for many years, but there’s been little progress in addressing it. The problem is arguably even worse in developmental psychology than in ...

Much has been written about psychology's reliance on WEIRD samples. "WEIRD" is an acronym coined by Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan: samples that are drawn from populations that are White, Educated ...

B eginning in the early 20th century, psychology researchers — who, in the field’s first decades, had mostly experimented on themselves — began to seek larger samples. In many cases, they turned to ...