The WEIRDest People in the World

“uh so I have like another kind of set of books which are quite different but they've had some of the biggest impact on just the background of my thinking over the last few years in very subtle ways and that's Joe heinrich's books secret of our success and the EST people in the world”

“and he has this other book the weirdest people in the world which is about the psychology in particular of weird people Western educated industrialized rich and Democratic”

“there's this am outstanding book called the weirdest people in the world that actually goes through and studies the differences between this am monogamous marriage am you know God family work Protestant ethic sort of society that grew up in the west”

“it's the weirdest people in the world by Joseph Henrik”

“A book called The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrik, who is an anthropologist and a psychologist, really transformed the way that I think about people”

“kin based culture is you know as it's referred to in the weirdest people in the world which is a great book am which we haven't talked about in a while but am worth reading for everyone am but that that is really a cultural consistency in in in tribalism”

“But I really, you know, I read a really good book, The Weirdest”

“Today, I have the pleasure of chatting with Joseph Henrich, who is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University and an author of two of my favorite books, The Weirdest People in the World and before that, The Secret of Our Success.”

“Sorry, that gives us a good opportunity to go into WEIRD.”

“Okay, so we’ve been dancing around the thesis of your book following The Secret, which is The Weirdest People in the World.”

“I mean, you discuss in WEIRD that throughout this period in European history, European states are at war most of the time.”

“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”

“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”

“Henrik recently followed that book with another one called the weirdest people in the world how the West became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous”

“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”

“That’s essentially the tenor of Joe Henrich’s book called The WEIRDest People, in which he points this out.”

“part of Joe Joe henrik's argument in the weirdest people of the the world is that actually what sets what sets weird Society what what kind of create helped push for these kind of unique ways of thinking about Society in the world was actually not protestantism”

“There's a fascinating book I read about a year ago called The Weirdest People in the World, and it's about the distinctiveness of Western culture and its values by a social scientist”