cross-cultural psychology

Psychology’s WEIRD Problem – And What It Means for Georgia

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Here is an uncomfortable fact about the science of human behavior: most of what we know about “people” was learned by studying a very particular, very unusual slice of people. For decades, psychology built its theories on one narrow population and quietly assumed the findings applied to everyone. They often don’t. This is the WEIRD … Read more

The Invisible Script: How Culture Writes the Story of a Life

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Think about what happens when someone tells you they went to a restaurant. You don’t need them to explain that they were seated, looked at a menu, ordered from a waiter, ate, paid, and left. You already know all of that. You have a mental template, a script for how a restaurant visit unfolds, and … Read more