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Harvard Professor in The Dept. of Human Evolutionary Biology. Books: The Secret of Our Success & The WEIRDest People in World. Tweets r my own.
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Nature Communications研究揭示高等教育导致全球文化价值观趋同于西方模式

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By Joseph Henrich
| Tiger Sniff
当心理学家在全球招募参与者做实验时，他们以为自己在研究人类心理——可他们招到的，往往只是大学生。这些大学生的想法真能代表全世界人民的文化多样性吗？ 2026年，发表于Nature Communications的一项研究给出了一个令人警醒的答案：全球各国受过高等教育的人，在信念、价值观和行为模式上，与西方发达国家的人惊人地相似——而收入和主观社会地位却并不能产生同样的效果（White&Muthukrishna,2026）。这意味着，全世界的大学教育可能正在悄悄执行一项隐性任务：传播一套源自西方的文化基因。 WEIRD困境 2010年，心理学家Joseph Henrich和同事在Behavioral and Brain Sciences上发表了一篇开创性论文，指出心理学研究中约96%的被试来自所谓“WEIRD”社会——即Western（西方）、Educated（受过教育）、Industrialized（工业化）、Rich（富裕）、Democratic（民主）的社会。这些被试远非全人类的代表，却被当作理解人类心理的默认样本。...
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How Cultural Diversity Drives Innovation: Surnames and Patents in U.S. History

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By Jonathan Schulz, Joseph Henrich, Max Posch
| uchicago.edu
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The chronospatial revolution in psychology - Nature Human Behaviour

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By Mohammad Atari, Joseph Henrich
| Nature Verified
Abstract Psychology’s definition and scope have shifted over the discipline’s short history, yet it has largely remained ahistorical and geographically narrow. Here we call for psychology to become a historical and geographical science, a transformation we term the chronospatial revolution. We list four barriers to this shift in psychology: problems in scope, data, synergy and theory.
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