WEIRD

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See also: weird and weïrd

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Etymology

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Coined by American evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich and collaborators in 2010, referring to a bias among respondents and test subjects in psychology studies.

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WEIRD (not comparable)

  1. Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.
    WEIRD societies
    • 2016, Joseph V. Cohn, Sae Schatz, Hannah Freeman, David J. Y. Combs, editors, Modeling Sociocultural Influences on Decision Making: Understanding Conflict, Enabling Stability, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 165:
      Perhaps one of the more striking distinctions between WEIRD societies and non-WEIRD societies (what Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan call small-scale societies in their paper) is a distinction in visual perception processes.
    • 2018, Nancy S. Kim, Judgment and Decision-Making: In the Lab and the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 38:
      Again, it is likely that the majority of researchers in psychology and related fields are themselves members of WEIRD populations, living and working within WEIRD societies.

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