This summary contains all relevant chapters of the sixth edition of the book "Cross-Cultural Psychology" by Shiraev and Levy. Additionally, all of the obligatory articles were summarized and added to this document. I also refer to the content of the lectures to some extent, especially if there's no...
,The weirdest people in the world? (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010)
1. The database in the behavioral sciences is drawn from an extremely narrow slice of human
diversity
2. Behavioral scientists routinely assume that their findings from this narrow slice generalize to
the species
It seems problematic to generalize from industrialized populations to humans more broadly,
in the absence of supportive empirical evidence
Industrialized samples are outliers in studies about visual illusions, social motivations
(fairness), folkbiological cognition, and spatial cognition
Participants
68% are from the US
96% are from Western industrialized countries
Authors
73% of first authors were at American universities
9% were at universities in Western countries
-> 96% of psychological samples come from countries with only 12% of the world's population
, pp. 1-29 ch. 1
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