People who were raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic tend to be highly individualistic, control-oriented, nonconformist, analytical and trusting of strangers and are in many other ways different from most of the other people in the world. Steve talks with Professor Joseph Henrich, author of The Weirdest People in the World: How Westerners became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous.
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