Key points

'The WEIRDest people in the world' was a watershed article, bringing awareness to Western bias in psychology.

Calling people, samples, regions, or countries WEIRD or non-WEIRD is funny for some, but hurtful for others.

There are better terms than WEIRD for describing regional differences in psychology.

Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan’s 2010 WEIRDest people in the world article was a watershed. Two years earlier, Arnett (2008) defined the extent to which psychological science relies on narrow and atypical human samples: Western college students. Henrich and colleagues decisively demonstrated the costs of this bias , showing samples from Western contexts to be outliers on a wide variety of psychological phenomena. (See also Shinobu Kitayama’s work on the co-constitution

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