WEIRD

See also: weird and weïrd

English

Etymology

Coined by American evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich and collaborators in 2010, referring to a bias among respondents and test subjects in psychology studies.

Adjective

WEIRD (not comparable)

1. Acronym of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

   WEIRD societies

   • 2016, Joseph V. Cohn, Sae Schatz, Hannah Freeman, David J. Y. Combs, editors, Modeling Sociocultural Influences on Decision Making: Understanding Conflict, Enabling Stability, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 165:

     Perhaps one of the more striking distinctions between WEIRD societies and non-WEIRD societies (what Henrich, Heine, and Norenzayan call small-scale societies in their paper) is a distinction in visual perception processes.

   • 2018, Nancy S. Kim, Judgment and Decision-Making: In the Lab and the World, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 38:

     Again, it is likely that the majority of researchers in psychology and related fields are themselves members of WEIRD populations, living and working within WEIRD societies.

Anagrams

• Dwire, wider, wierd, wired, wride, wried