Psychology’s WEIRD problems

Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme; Baggs, Edward

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Psychology’s WEIRD problems

dc.contributor.author	Sanches de Oliveira, Guilherme
dc.contributor.author	Baggs, Edward
dc.contributor.department	Filosofía
dc.date.accessioned	2026-02-23T11:39:10Z
dc.date.available	2026-02-23T11:39:10Z
dc.date.copyright	© Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira and Edward Baggs 2023
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	Psychology has a WEIRD problem. It is overly reliant on participants from Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic societies. Over the last decade this problem has come to be widely acknowledged. However, psychologists have so far made little progress in making psychology more diverse. We propose that the lack of progress can be explained by the fact that the original WEIRD critique was too narrow in scope. The WEIRD critique was originally framed as a single problem of a lack of diversity among research participants. But in fact there are at least four overlapping problems. Psychological science is WEIRD not only in terms of who makes up its participant pool, but also in terms of its theoretical commitments, methodological assumptions, and institutional structures. Psychological science as currently constituted is a fundamentally WEIRD enterprise. Coming to terms with this is necessary if we wish to make psychology relevant for all humanity.
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dc.identifier.citation	Sanches de Oliveira, G., & Baggs, E. (2023). Psychology’s WEIRD Problems. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009303538
dc.identifier.eisbn	9781009303538
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-1-009-30351-4
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/210461
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher	Cambridge University Press
dc.relation	We acknowledge support by the Open Access Publication Fund of the Technical University of Berlin.
dc.relation.publisherversion	https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/psychologys-weird-problems/C324108A678435B4F18EF712EFB793BB
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	*
dc.subject	WEIRD psychology
dc.subject	Theory and methods
dc.subject	Institutional structures and incentives
dc.subject	Cross cultural research
dc.subject	Diversity
dc.subject.ods	No relacionado con ningún objetivo de desarrollo sostenible
dc.title	Psychology’s WEIRD problems
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