
The WEIRDest People in the World
How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
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Joseph Henrich
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A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.
Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you’re rather psychologically peculiar.
Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves—their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations—over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries?
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. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition—laying the foundation for the modern world.
Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history.
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The authors devoted five decades to the study of world history and philosophy, culminating in the masterful 11-volume Story of Civilization. In this compact summation of their work, Will and Ariel Durant share the vital and profound lessons of our collective past. Their perspective, gained after a lifetime of thinking and writing about the history of humankind, is an invaluable resource for us today.
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This is a must for every Educated Person
- De BradleyBurr en 10-29-07
De: Will, y otros
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The Denial of Death
- De: Ernest Becker
- Narrado por: Raymond Todd
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie: man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than 30 years after its writing.
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Not for the closed-minded
- De Yhatze en 05-27-17
De: Ernest Becker
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Soul City
- Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
- De: Thomas Healy
- Narrado por: Larry Herron
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Author Thomas Healy resurrects a forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality in this fascinating, forgotten story of the 1970s attempt to build a city dedicated to racial equality in the heart of “Klan Country”.
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awesome narrator
- De Arthur F. Jackson en 06-23-21
De: Thomas Healy
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Land
- How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
- De: Simon Winchester
- Narrado por: Simon Winchester
- Duración: 13 h y 46 m
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Land - whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city - is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing - and have done - with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet.
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Audiobook Version is the Best!
- De semarla en 01-31-21
De: Simon Winchester
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London's Number One Dog-Walking Agency
- A Memoir
- De: Kate MacDougall
- Narrado por: Anna Popplewell
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In 2006, Kate MacDougall was working a safe but dull job at the venerable auction house Sotheby’s in London. After a clumsy accident nearly destroyed a precious piece of art, she quit Sotheby’s and set up her own dog-walking company. Kate knew little about dogs and nothing about business, and no one thought being a professional dog walker was a good use of her university degree. Nevertheless, Kate embarked upon an entirely new and very much improvised career walking some of the city’s many pampered pooches, branding her company "London's Number One Dog Walking Agency".
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Entertaining light read
- De Amy D. en 07-10-21
De: Kate MacDougall
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Nothing but the Night
- Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America
- De: Greg King, Penny Wilson
- Narrado por: Armando Riesco
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Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers—Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb—were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”. Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow.
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Terrible crime, fascinating story
- De Samantha TBD en 10-01-22
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The Birth of Classical Europe
- A History from Troy to Augustine
- De: Simon Price, Peter Thonemann
- Narrado por: Don Hagen
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To an extraordinary extent we continue to live in the shadow of the classical world. At every level, from languages to calendars to political systems, we are the descendants of a “classical Europe,” using frames of reference created by ancient Mediterranean cultures. As this consistently fresh and surprising new audio book makes clear, however, this was no less true for the inhabitants of those classical civilizations themselves, whose myths, history, and buildings were an elaborate engagement with an already old and revered past - one filled with great leaders and writers....
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Excellent overview of the Classical World
- De David I. Williams en 01-12-14
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Salt
- A World History
- De: Mark Kurlansky
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 13 h y 48 m
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The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning. Mark Kurlansky has produced a kaleidoscope of history, a multi-layered masterpiece that blends economic, scientific, political, religious, and culinary records into a rich and memorable tale.
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More than SALT
- De Karen en 03-12-03
De: Mark Kurlansky
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The Anglo-Saxons
- A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 - 1066
- De: Marc Morris
- Narrado por: Roy McMillan
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Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the next six centuries. It explains how their earliest rulers fought relentlessly against each other for glory and supremacy, and then were almost destroyed by the onslaught of the vikings.
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"Pretty Good"
- De Stephen en 05-30-21
De: Marc Morris
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The World That Wasn't
- Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
- De: Benn Steil
- Narrado por: Stephen Graybill
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From the acclaimed economist-historian and author of The Marshall Plan, a “timely, riveting” (The Washington Post) new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—one that will forever change how we view the making of US and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Cold War.
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ideological hit job
- De Anonymous User en 09-03-24
De: Benn Steil
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The End of Bias: A Beginning
- The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
- De: Jessica Nordell
- Narrado por: Jessica Nordell
- Duración: 11 h y 43 m
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Unconscious bias: persistent, unintentional prejudiced behavior that clashes with our consciously held beliefs. We know that it exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect. We see it in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. But when it comes to uprooting our prejudices, we still have far to go. With nuance, compassion, and ten years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell weaves gripping stories with scientific research to reveal how minds, hearts, and behaviors change.
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An awesome book about understanding unconscious bias and how to end its powerful grip on our behavior.
- De Jose R. Nino en 10-10-21
De: Jessica Nordell
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The Great Mental Models
- General Thinking Concepts
- De: Shane Parrish
- Narrado por: Shane Parrish
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The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts is the first book in The Great Mental Models series designed to upgrade your thinking with the best, most useful and powerful tools so you always have the right one on hand. This volume details nine of the most versatile all-purpose mental models you can use right away to improve your decision making, your productivity, and how clearly you see the world.
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A dissapointing debut
- De Peter en 04-14-19
De: Shane Parrish
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Last Light
- How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph
- De: Richard Lacayo
- Narrado por: Mack Sanderson
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One of the nation’s top art critics shows how six great artists made old age a time of triumph by producing some of the greatest work of their long careers—and, in some cases, changing the course of art history. Though these six artists differed in many respects, they shared one thing: a determination to go on creating, driven not by the bounding energies of youth but by the ticking clock that would inspire them to produce some of their greatest masterpieces.
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An art history course in one slim book
- De LC en 02-19-23
De: Richard Lacayo
Why people differ and why it matters
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Tribal cultures are not inclined to develop technology or pursue outside learning due to its disruptive effects on the status quo of the ruling tribal elite. Conversely, WEIRD cultures embrace technology and place fewer barriers to its implementation—this produces a different kind of elite, one not based solely on familial relationships. WEIRD cultures develop superior construction and medical techniques—and superior weapons. The WEIRD approach to world problems can on the surface bring health and prosperity to non-WEIRD populations. It also can be equally disastrous to a non-WEIRD culture when it’s in an unequal relationship with a WEIRD culture—examples are the less than productive results from WEIRD attempts at communication in Vietnam, South America, Afghanistan, and Iraq (add your own examples to this list). The forced suppression of tribal cultures by WEIRD cultures is rightly condemned, and WEIRD countries such as the US are barely beginning to recognize the chauvinism of Manifest Destiny.
However, Henrich’s description of tribal communities indicates that not all is a perfect life in non-WEIRD communities. In a tribal culture, one’s family is a foundation and a shield against outside attacks—it’s also a confining boundary against seeking a better life. Some non-WEIRD societies were also enaged in inter-tribal wars, and their traditions included brutal initiation rites—most of them are by nature authoritarian at all levels.
WEIRD societies have produced both beneficial and detrimental effects on both themselves and non-WEIRD societies. Without the MFP being imposed on the European tribes, it’s likely that the American continents would still be ruled by Native Americans, and many of the world’s wars would have been much less deadly (if they occurred at all)—conversely none of us would have the advanced medicine, transportation, communication, and creature comforts we take for granted today.
Between the two (WEIRD vs. non-WEIRD) it may be a matter of pick your poison—or more likely, which lifestyle has been allotted to you by life’s circumstances. Recently, with the advancement of authoritarianism (including in parts of Europe and America), the world may begin to become less WEIRD—consider the Russian invasion of Ukraine and how authoritarian obedience impaired their military execution (a fortunate development for democracy). Other authoritarian nations also don’t innovate as much as they import—or steal (as authoritarian societies are by their nature hamstrung from innovation). As of now, it appears to be too early to know whether democracy will be able to hold its own against the current advancement of autocracy.
The ultimate question is whether a society can be WEIRD without being a hegemon (military, economic, or cultural) over non-WEIRD societies (both inside and between nations). I think the answer to that is yes—and due to their superior technology, the WEIRD societies have it in their power to make the decision to do so. Those of us in WEIRD societies are under the imperative to advance that ethos—doing so may be the key to holding off 21st Century autocracy, for the well being of both WEIRD and non-WEIRD societies.
The answer may be literally WEIRD
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Landmark scholarship, annoying, awful performance
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The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich is the best, and most important, book that I have encountered in 10 years.
Necessary to understand the modern world
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Super Interesting and Valuable
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Mostly harmless
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Narration made understanding the book more difficult.
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Comprehensive, but not that weird.
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impressive at each step of its empirical demonstrations,
(quite thoughtful and forthright about shortcomings in the evidence along the way,)
and forcefully persuasive in its many conclusions.
This work deserves to be among the most influential popular non-fiction works of the 21st century.
I eagerly await theoretical and empirical criticisms and developments. However, Henrich has set out the new standard for explaining the peculiarity of the West.
A Must-Read
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A must read
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