WEIRD

Authors

  • Joel Candau Université Côte d'Azur

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17184/eac.anthropen.077

Keywords:

diversité culturelle

Abstract

Behavioural sciences claim to highlight universal cognitive skills and psychological traits. However, their almost exclusive reliance on WEIRD subjects (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic), bias experimental results on which rely these disciplines as it ignores human cultural diversity.

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Published

2018-03-17