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🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: WeirdA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: A truly global, non-WEIRD examination of collectivism: The Global Collectivism Index (GCI)Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Lost HeirThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Most people are not WEIRDCited 2,703 times
- Go sideways: Bad Hair DayA closely related topic
- Go sideways: The Night Santa Went CrazyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Having an unusually strange character or behaviour.
Adjective Deviating from the normal; bizarre.
Adjective Relating to weird fiction ("a macabre subgenre of speculative fiction").
Adjective Belonging, pertaining, or related to fate, destiny, or to the Fates; able to influence fate.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Most people are not WEIRD
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance
Beyond WEIRD: Towards a broad-based behavioral science
“It’s Weird That it Knows What I Want”: Usability and Interactions with Copilot for Novice Programmers
How WEIRD are positive psychology interventions? A bibliometric analysis of randomized controlled trials on the science of well-being
Morality beyond the WEIRD: How the nomological network of morality varies across cultures.
Weird Animal Genomes and the Evolution of Vertebrate Sex and Sex Chromosomes
The Weird and Wonderful World of Bacterial Ribosome Regulation
🆕 Influential since 2022
A truly global, non-WEIRD examination of collectivism: The Global Collectivism Index (GCI)
Virtual reality enhances safety training in the maritime industry: An organizational training experiment with a non‐WEIRD sample
WEIRD–Confucian comparisons: Ongoing cultural biases in psychology’s evidence base and some recommendations for improving global representation.
Happiness Maximization Is a WEIRD Way of Living
For a new weird geography
📚 Books worth reading
The Lost HeirTui T. Sutherland · 2012
KrakenChina Miéville · 2010
The FishermanJohn Langan · 2016
Sesqua Valley and Other HauntsW. H. Pugmire · 2003
Strangely Enough!Carroll Burleigh Colby (1904-1977) · 1940
She Walks in ShadowsSilvia Moreno-Garcia, Paula R. Stiles · 2015
One Hand to Hold, One Hand to CarveM. Shaw · 2022
Sharnoth's Spores and Other SeedsLeigh Blackmore · 2008
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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