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“In 2010, the cultural psychologists Joe Henrich, Steve Heine, and Ara Norenzayan published a profoundly important article titled "The Weirdest People in the World?" The authors pointed out that nearly all research in psychology is conducted on a very small subset of the human population: people from cultures that are Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (forming the acronym WEIRD). They then reviewed dozens of studies showing that WEIRD peopl are statistical outliers; they are the least typical, least representative people you could study if you want to make generalizations about human nature. Even within the West, Americans are more extreme outliers than Europeans, and within the United States, the educated upper middle class is the most unusual of all. Several of the peculiarities of WEIRD culture can be captured in this sample generalization: The WEIRDer you are, the more you see a world full of separate objects rather than relationships.”

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Author:Jonathan Haidt
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“Psychologists assume that the shared characteristics of research participants reflect 'normality', but how accurate is this assumption? In fact, this postulation has been called into question by a relatively new field called cross-cultural or cultural psychology. Scientists are now beginning to understand that what may be normal in one society may not be applicable to other societies.”

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Book:Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
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“Embodied cognition is the science linked with the ancient science of mantra-tantra-yantra systems. It deals with body-mind and ego simultaneously as an integrated system. It encompasses biological, psychological and cultural context together.”

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Book:Mantra Design Fundamentals - Basics of mantra forms, structures, compositions, and formulas
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