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Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira and Edward Baggs investigate why psychological research so often takes a narrow range of human experience as its starting point. The familiar concern about Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic participant samples leads into a broader examination of the discipline’s research habits.
The authors argue that recruiting a wider variety of participants cannot by itself resolve every problem. They examine theoretical commitments, assumptions built into research methods and the institutions that shape what psychologists study. These connections explain why the meaning of a result depends on more than the demographic composition of a sample.
The book brings questions about culture into conversation with the design and interpretation of psychological investigations. Its focus is the practice of producing knowledge about people: how research questions are framed, how findings travel between settings, and what researchers must reconsider when seeking more adequate accounts of human behavior.
Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira; Edward Baggs. Psychology’s WEIRD Problems. Cambridge University Press, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009303538. Licensed CC BY 4.0; the unchanged original edition and its required notices are retained.