{"id":19212,"date":"2022-08-02T06:14:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=19212"},"modified":"2022-07-31T16:26:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-31T22:26:26","slug":"book-34-of-52-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/book-34-of-52-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 34 (of 52) &#8211; The WEIRDest People In The World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19213\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WEIRDest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19213\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19213\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WEIRDest.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WEIRDest.jpg 220w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WEIRDest-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous &#8211; Joseph Henrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ummm, yeah. Written by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich, <em>The WEIRDest People in the World<\/em> aims to explain the history and psychological variation of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations with approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology.\u00a0 To make a very long story short, a lot of the shift can be traced back to the rise of the Roman Catholic church, which expanded through Europe and wiped out traditional clans and lifestyles.<\/p>\n<p>While I enjoyed some of the ideas presented here and how our environment literally impacts our physiology, this information was presented in much more of a formal way than I usually prefer.\u00a0 In fact, I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to see this used as a textbook in some college course somewhere.\u00a0 This academic approach impacted my ability to get through and enjoy the theses presented.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ummm, yeah. Written by Harvard professor Joseph Henrich, The WEIRDest People in the World aims to explain the history and psychological variation of WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) populations with approaches from cultural evolution and evolutionary psychology.\u00a0 To make a very long story short, a lot of the shift can be traced back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2147,10155,10154],"class_list":["post-19212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-harvard","tag-joseph-henrich","tag-the-weirdest-people-in-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19214,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19212\/revisions\/19214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}