WEIRD

See also: weird and weïrd

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

WEIRD (not comparable)

  1. Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.
    WEIRD societies
    • 2009 March 5, Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World”, in University of British Columbia‎[1], page 4:
      Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.
    • 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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