The last generation or two of undergraduates have largely been taught by a cohort of social scientists busily doing penance for the racism and Eurocentrism of their predecessors, albeit in different ways.
How weird are Americans? Social science pioneer Joe Henrich says that they might be the weirdest bunch on the planet. At the Pacific Standard, Ethan Watters delineates the research conducted and the papers that Henrich and his colleagues wrote to determine America’s weirdness.