Meetings will be on Friday afternoons (approximately every other week) from 1:30-3:00. The meetings will begin the semester online via Zoom. If circumstances allow, we may change to a hybrid option later in the semester.
For zoom link to meeting contact [email protected]
For more information contact Alan Love
For Fall 2021, we will continue the collaboration with the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science Center Discussion Group . Our focus will be on the status of WEIRD ("White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic") data in the human sciences, including medicine, psychology, and social science (among others). This is in conjunction with the Fall 2021 Symposium ("Data, Rigor, and Reproducibility in Light of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"), which will be held later in the semester (December 3) and focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in data with respect to the many dimensions of reproducibility in scientific research.
| September 17: Henrich, J., S.J. Heine, and A. Norenzayan. 2010. The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33:61–83. (pdf password protected) |
| October 1: Astuti, R., M. Bloch, N. Baumard, D. Sperber, W.M. Bennis, D.L. Medin, et al. 2010. Open Peer Commentary and Author Replies: The weirdest people in the world? Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33:83–135. (pdf password protected) |
| October 15: Laajaj R., K. Macours, D.A. Pinzon Hernandez, O. Arias, S.D. Gosling, J. Potter, M. Rubio-Codina, and R. Vakis. 2019. Challenges to capture the big five personality traits in non-WEIRD populations. Science Advances 5(7):eaaw5226. (pdf) |
| October 29: Gardiner, G., D.Lee, E. Baranski, D. Funder, and the Members of the International Situations Project. 2020. Happiness around the world: A combined etic-emic approach across 63 countries. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242718. |
| November 12: Kanazawa, S. 2020. What do we do with the WEIRD problem? Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences 14(4):342-346; (pdf) Rad, M.S., A.J. Martingano, and J. Ginges. 2018. Toward a psychology of Homo sapiens: Making psychological science more representative of the human population. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(45):11401-11405. (pdf) |
| December 10: |