The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous is a 2020 book by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich that aims to explain history and psychological variation using approaches from …

2018年12月8日 · Whether flamboyant, miserly, or paranoid, some of history's weirdest people put modern-day eccentricities to shame. We’re all a little bit weird, some more than others. There are those, however, who blaze past casual weirdness and enter the ranks of the epically bizarre.

2023年9月12日 · You have seen many strange and most bizarre people in your lives and believed that no one could be as weird as them, but this list must have changed your

2020年9月8日 · In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more.

The acronym WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—aims to raise people’s consciousness about psychological differences and to emphasize that WEIRD people are but one unusual slice of humanity’s cultural diversity. WEIRD highlights the sampling bias present in studies conducted in cognitive science, behavioral ...

2025年3月27日 · These weird facts are so bizarre they might just blow your mind. Read on to learn weird fun facts about animals, nature, travel, and more!

2018年12月8日 · It's a tall order to list the weirdest people in history, but with résumé's like these, no one can deny these highly abnormal humans a spot.

Below are thirty things about those and other historic figures who were plenty weird. Pythagoras. Pixels. 30. The Pythagoras You Probably Did Not Know. Today, Pythagoras (circa 570 BC – circa 495 BC) is famous for his mathematical theorems.

"The WEIRDest People in the World is among the best books I have read in the last five to ten years." — Jason Furman, former economic advisor for President Barack Obama, Professor at Harvard Kennedy School.

2018年12月7日 · We’ve all known somebody who seems a little bit peculiar, be it in what they're fascinated by, how they act, or how they choose to present themselves. But some people are just so strange that it can be hard to believe that they are real. But hey, we're not judging —boring is …