title: WEIRD societies may be more compatible with human nature.
abstract: Are WEIRD societies unrepresentative of humanity? According to Henrich et al., they are not useful for generalizing about humans because they are at the extreme end of the distribution for societal formations. In their vision, it is best to stick with the "tried and true" traditional societies for speculations about human nature. This commentary offers a more realistic starting point, and, oddly enough, concludes that WEIRD populations may be more compatible with humans' evolved nature than are most traditional societies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. alexandra.maryanski@ucr.edu
authors.forename: Alexandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Maryanski
mesh_terms: D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D040821:Human Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D012107:Research Design; D012919:Social Behavior; D012931:Social Environment