The weirdest people in the world?

Cultures are different. But still a fun and interesting article citing results from The Ultimatum Game from people in the Peruvian Amazon.

“WEIRD: Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic.

If you're a Westerner, your intuitions about human psychology are probably wrong or at least there's good reason to believe they're wrong,Dr. Henrich says.

After analyzing reams of data from earlier studies, the UBC team found that WEIRD people reacted differently from others in experiment after experiment involving measures of fairness, anti-social punishment and co-operation, as well as visual illusions and questions of individualism and conformity.

In other words, we do not know what we thought we knew about the human mind. We only know about the mind of a particular, unusual slice of humanity > westerners.

Our brains are distorted, Dr. Henrich says.”

Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/Westerners+World+weird+ones/3427126/story.html#ixzz10pXSzrfJ

Thanks: via @garethk