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Psychology's WEIRD Problems: Elements in Psychology and Culture

Autor Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, Edward Baggs
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 iun 2023
"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. However, psychologists have so far made little progress in making psychology more diverse. We propose that the lack of progress can be explained by the fact that the original WEIRD critique was too narrow in scope. The WEIRD critique was originally framed as a single problem of a lack of diversity among research participants. But in fact there are at least four overlapping problems. Psychological science is WEIRD not only in terms of who makes up its participant pool, but also in terms of its theoretical commitments, methodological assumptions, and institutional structures. Psychological science as currently constituted is a fundamentally WEIRD enterprise. Coming to terms with this is necessary if we wish to make psychology relevant for all humanity"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781009303514
ISBN-10: 1009303511
Pagini: 75
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Elements in Psychology and Culture

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. Introduction; 2. Weird participants; 3. Weird theory; 4. Weird methods; 5. Weird institutions; 6. UnWEIRDing psychology?; References.

Descriere

This Element states that psychology is deeply and fundamentally WEIRD at the theoretical, methodological, and institutional levels.