The WEIRDest People in the World by Henrich, Joseph -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Preface Prelude: Your Brain Has Been Modified

What God Wants The Histories of Religions, Biologies, and Psychologies

Part I: The Evolution of Societies and Psychologies

1. WEIRD Psychology

Really, Who Are You? Marshmallows Come to Those Who Wait UN Diplomats Get Parking Tickets Obsessed with Intentions Missing the Forest The Rest of the Iceberg

2. Making a Cultural Species

Evolved to Learn Evolving Societies Avenues into Your Mind

3. Clans, States, and Why You Can’t Get Here from There

How Ilahita Got Big When, How, and Why Did Societies Scale Up? Getting to Premodern States Going End Around

4. The Gods Are Watching. Behave!

Moralizing Gods and Contingent Afterlives The Evolution of Gods and Rituals Hell, Free Will, and Moral Universalism Persuasive Martyrs and Boring Rituals The Launchpad

Part II: The Origins of WEIRD People

5. WEIRD Families

Dissolving the Traditional Family The Carolingians, Manorialism, and the European Marriage Pattern Downstream Transformations

6. Psychological Differences, Families, and the Church

Kinship Intensity and Psychology The Church Altered Kinship and Changed Psychology Opening the Floodgates

7. Europe and Asia

The Church’s Footprints Psychological Differences Within China and India Fertile Ground

8. WEIRD Monogamy

A “Peculiar” Institution Polygyny’s Math Problem A Testosterone Suppression System Trust, Teamwork, and Crime Putting the Pieces Together

Part III: New Institutions, New Psychologies

9. Of Commerce and Cooperation

Market Integration and Impersonal Prosociality “No Hui, No Market Towns” The Commercial and Urban Revolutions Round Up

10. Domesticating the Competition

War, Religion, and Psychology Europeans Made War, and War Made Them WEIRDer Taming Intergroup Conflict When and Why? Harnessing the Power of Competition

11. Market Mentalities

How Work Became Virtuous Be Yourself: The Origins of WEIRD Personalities It’s Big, but How Big?

Part IV: Birthing the Modern World

12. Law, Science, and Religion

Universal Laws, Conflicting Principles, and Individual Rights Representative Governments and Democracy The WEIRDest Religion Dark Matter or Enlightenment?

13. Escape Velocity

Wiring Up the Collective Brain More Inventive? Psychology and Innovation in the Modern World Escaping the Trap

14. The Dark Matter of History

Guns, Germs, and Other Factors Globalization and Its Discontents

Appendix A. Milestones in the Marriage and Family Program Appendix B. Additional Plots Appendix C. The Psychological Impacts of Relational and Residential Mobility Notes

Notes: Prelude Notes 1 Notes 2 Notes 3 Notes 4 Notes 5 Notes 6 Notes 7 Notes 8 Notes 9 Notes 10 Notes 11 Notes 12 Notes 13 Notes 14

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