The idea that we have a stable self that exists across all contexts, that a person’s intentions should be central to any evaluation of their actions, that guilt is a widely felt emotion, that self-esteem is crucial for happiness, we treat all these as truisms, but they’re not.Īt least that’s the argument made by Joseph Henrich. We take them for granted because we study ourselves and then use that to extrapolate to human nature, but we shouldn’t. ![]() We take them for granted because we feel them. There are all these things we take for granted as basic elements of human psychology and ethics that are actually peculiar to the WEIRD psychology. It stands for a certain kind of person: western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.Īnd WEIRD people, who have been the people we’ve been surveying and studying for a lot of research on psychology, they actually turn out to be different, much more so than they, than we often realize or admit. In social science, or at least certain corners of it, WEIRD is now an acronym. ![]() You’re probably very weird, and not just for all the obvious reasons you’re thinking of. If you’re listening to this podcast, you’re pretty WEIRD. Transcript If You’re Reading This, You’re Probably ‘WEIRD’ The anthropologist Joseph Henrich parses how culture shapes our psyches.
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