Week 3 Flashcards
WEIRD
W - Western
E - Educated
I - Indrustialised
R - Rich
D - Democratic
WEIRD Failure to Replicate
- Studies are often constrained to the time period they were done in.
- Different results occur as society changes
- Different effects to not exist in all people at all times
WEIRD People Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan 2010
- Compared non-industrialised and industrialised societies
- Reviewed many studies from different groups to compared
- Found lots of differences
- Non industrialised - -more susceptible to standard visual illusions
- If perception is subjective then what else is there in WEIRD societies that makes them outliers
Differences in Industrialised Cultures and Non-Industrialise Cultures
- Show differences in susceptibility to standard visual illusions
- Differences in perceptions of fairness and punishment for not cooperating
- More risk averse when facing monetary gambling involving gains - Industrialised
- Discount for the future less steeply
Differences in Western Cultures and Non-Western Cultures
- Show differences in their self concept about The Self
- Differences in reasoning (analytic or holistic)
- Differences in moral reasoning - Western judgement on justice and harm - Non Western rely on wider range adding interpersonal relationships, obligations & divinity
- Higher motivation for consistency
- More prone to social loafing
- Associate more benefits with physical attractiveness
Differences in US and Non-US Western countries
Compared to people from non-US countries, people from the US are:
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* More individualistic
* Prefer to have more choice
* More analytic in reasoning style
* More cultural worldview defense when faced with the thought of death
Cultural World View Defense
- How individuals cope with reminders of death
- Increase how passionate we feel about our values
- Do more to participate in our culture
- React more intensely when our culture is challenged
- Sub conscious wish to continue existing through our culture after we die
- Does not replicate; World View Defense does not increase with reminders of mortality
Differences in US Students and US Non-Students
Compared to US non college students, US college students are:
- More individualistic
- Rationalise their choices more
- Less conforming
- Moral reasoning focused on autonomy
- Less prejudiced
- More self monitoring
- More susceptible to attitude change
- More susceptible to social influence
WEIRD Outliers
- HENRICH, HEINE, & NORENZAYAN (2010):
said that because WEIRD people are so dramatically different to the rest of the world, then they are the worst people to base psychology on. - But they are the subjects of most of our studies and findings
Trans, Non-Binary and Gender Diverse
Cameron & Stinson 2019
* How the number of gender and sex were measured
* If not reported they contacted authors to ask
* No studies mentioned how gender was measured except for a few.
* Authors mostly chose a binary measure of male/female
* A handful were inclusive or othering
Problems of mismeasuring gender in research
- Denies identity of gender divers participants
- Gender division invalidates or misclassifiies or erases their results
- Inaccurate description of sample
- Misclassification of participants which threatens the validity of results
- May cause reactance effects in participants
Reactance Effects
- Effects could be larger or smaller than they are
- Direction of correlation could be reversed because of misclassification
- Changes the responses to study making it less authentic
Indigenous Psychology
- Defining western psychology according to indigenous populations worldwide
- Thought, experience and perspective
- Native knowledge rooted in sociocultural context
- based on mundane daily activites interpreted through their indigenous lens
Elements of Indigenous Psychology
- Primacy of local culture perspective
- Relevant and Reflects sociocultural identity
- Culture as the source of concepts & Theories
- Not imposed knowledge or theories
- Methods, tool and results that represent phenomenon in context
Two perspectives of Indigenous Psychology
- The people residing in a country
- History of the people living in that land and contrasts imported western theories
- Background of colonisation - First inhabitants of the land like Maori or ATSI peoples
- Short or non-existent history of indegenous psychology.
- Also contrasts western methods & results
3 Characteristics of Indigenous Peoples
- Martinez Cobo 1995
1. Ways of being are and continue to be impacted by colonisation
2. Lives characterised by surviving and adapting to colony - often assimilation into the dominant society
3. Maintain connnectednes to the land and way of life