https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-rmara-1b444bd
Dr. Curtis Peterson explores how mainstream psychology relied on WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic) samples, creating blind spots and justifications for colonization, and introduces the fundamental attribution error in cultural judgement.
The episode contrasts cross-cultural and cultural psychology, highlights cultural effects on development and perception (Piaget and color), explains transmission and enculturation (e.g., DSM changes, pink/blue norms), and reviews Hofstede’s cultural dimensions with everyday examples like rural vs. urban social behavior.