The WEIRDest People in the World How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Heinrich wrote a book if you're like, I need to know more about this, it's called How the West Became Weird.

Weird as in Western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

Heinrich wrote a book if you're like, I need to know more about this, it's called How the West Became Weird.

Weird as in Western educated, industrialized, rich and democratic.

His 2020 book, The Weirdest People in the World, takes that argument and extends it, arguing that beginning sometime in the middle ages, certain cultural and really religious shifts radically transformed the psychologies of individuals living in Europe.

Henrich recently followed that book with another one called The Weirdest People in the World. How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.

And the case I make is it's been highly unsuccessful to just pick up institutions that evolved in Western societies and transport them to drop them in Africa or the Middle East or places like that, because there needs to be a fit between how people think about the world, their values, worldviews, motivations and the affordances of the institution.

Henrich recently followed that book with another one called The Weirdest People in the World. How the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.

I just read this book I don't know if you've heard this book The Weirdest People on Earth have you?

Joseph Henrich of Harvard University, who explains this divergence through the ban on cousin marriage, also mentions in his book, The Weirdest People in the World, something that I think has been underplayed.

It seemed to combine three of my other favorite books, which is The Weirdest People in the World.

There's a great book called The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Heinrich, which points out that many biases and mindsets and frameworks that we have to think about what the self is and whether we owe our alliances more to the law or our family, that many of these ideas that seem normal are actually extraordinarily Western and sometimes even uniquely American.