Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance

In this article, we present a tool and a method for measuring the psychological and cultural distance between societies and creating a distance scale with any population as the point of comparison. Because psychological data are dominated by samples drawn from Western, educated, industrialized, rich...

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Published in:	Psychological science Vol. 31; no. 6; pp. 678 - 701
Main Authors:	Muthukrishna, Michael, Bell, Adrian V., Henrich, Joseph, Curtin, Cameron M., Gedranovich, Alexander, McInerney, Jason, Thue, Braden
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.06.2020 SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects:	China Cognition Comparative studies Cross-Cultural Comparison Cultural differences Cultural Diversity Cultural values Developed Countries Developing Countries Evolutionary theories Fixation Homogeneity Humans Mapping Multiculturalism & pluralism Psychoanalytic Interpretation Psychological Distance Psychology Psychology, Social - methods Research Design United States United States China United States > US cultural distance cross-cultural differences WEIRD people replication crisis cultural psychology
ISSN:	0956-7976, 1467-9280, 1467-9280
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