The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Far from being inconsequential, certain kinds of supernatural beliefs and rituals
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
all models are wrong, some are useful
This means you can’t truly understand psychology without considering how the minds of populations have been shaped by cultural evolution.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
can't truly understand psychology without understanding how minds have been shaped by cultural evolution
Besides economic dislocation, people face the loss of meaning they derive from being a nexus in a broad network of relational connections that stretches both back in time to their ancestors and ahead to their descendants.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
loss of meaning
recognize these misfits because they implicitly assume psychological unity, or they figure that people’s psychology will rapidly shift to accommodate the new formal institutions.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
most implictly assume psycho. uniformity or ablity to rapidly readjust psychology
because culture has been winning over genes.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
culture winning over genes
This suggests that affluence plays little role in shaping these global psychological differences.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
affluence plays little role in shaping psychological diffs (see UN experiment)
My account picks up the story of global inequality where Diamond’s explanation falls off—circa 1000—
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
account picks up where ggs left off - around 1000 AD
Outline of the main processes described in this book.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
trajectory of West
cultural evolution of psychology is the dark matter
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
cultural evolution of psychology is dark matter of psycho, since we used to think we could just look at individuals and understand them without accounting for culture.