Project Sherlock

Paper

2010

The Weirdest People in the World?

Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine & Ara Norenzayan

Shows that most published psychology draws its participants from Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic societies - a narrow and often unusual slice of humanity - and that findings from this group frequently fail to generalise to the rest of the species.

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Filed under Research Methods & the Replication Crisis in Psychology.