Psychology's Weird Problems

by Edward Baggs and Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira

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, yet there has been little progress toward making psychology more diverse. This Element proposes that the lack of progress can be explained by the fact that the original WEIRD critique was too narrow in scope. Rather than a single problem of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009303511
• ISBN13: 9781009303514
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"