![]() ![]() So if Westerners think WEIRDly, maybe liberals think even WEIRDer. But the vast majority of people around the world more often think intuitively-what psychologists call “holistic thought.”įive years ago, I had just arrived at the University of Virginia, and I had a thought flash: Aren’t most of these WEIRD elements even more true of liberal culture within the United States? Liberalism thrives in universities (Education), cities (Industrialized), the wealthy East and West coasts (Rich), and ultra-pluralistic groups like Occupy Wall Street and Unitarian churches (Democratic). On psychological tests, Westerners tend to view scenes, explain behavior, and categorize objects analytically. People from Western Educated Industrialized Rich Democratic countries are consistent psychological outliers compared to the other 85% of the world’s population. Guest post by Thomas Talhelm (on a recent publication with Haidt, mentioned by Tom Edsall in NYT)Ī few years ago, psychologists looked at all of the psychological studies of people in different cultures and concluded that Westerners are WEIRD. ![]() ![]() Jan 31 22 Liberals are WEIRDer than Conservatives ![]()
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