The Weirdest People in the World

In 20 ten, i wrote a paper called the weirdest people in the world. It basically questioned the methods used in psychology and economics because they were too focused on American undergraduates at that time. And when you go globally and you look at the rest of the global population that's non western, you find tremendous variation. In dimensions like individualism, or trust in strangers, or inclinations towards analytic thinking versus wholistic thinking,. The importance of intentionality and moral judgment, and i can go on. So just a lot of psychological variation. And what i was trying to lay out some ideas about why this, where this global variations might come from., is really a consciousness raising concept

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