WEIRD

• Learning Outcomes

  • Recognize the colonial nature of psychology in the Philippines
  • Understand the meaning of WEIRD psychology and its limitations
  • Understand the concept and consequences of practicing angat-patong and copycat psychology
• 93% of Psychological knowledge is based from the US and other WEIRD samples
• The remaining 84% does not represent the global population, leading to a disparity in psychological knowledge
• Reasons why teaching Sikolohiyang Filipino matters for Psychology

  • Creates a more inclusive Psychology
  • Corrects the biases of a dominantly Euro-American Psychology
  • Expands the knowledge base of Psychology
  • Gives more opportunities to understand ourselves as Filipinos
  • Can be an instrument of decolonization
• Teaching Sikolohiyang Filipino matters for Psychology because it:
• 25% from other countries, 68% from English-speaking countries, and 7% from non-WEIRD countries (Asian countries; non-English-speaking countries), but they account for only 16% of the total world population
• WEIRD Psychology

  Western, Educated (English-speaking), Industrialized, Rich and Democratic cultural identifier of psychology test subject
• The dangers of blind faith in Western Psychology include angat-patong or uni-national dominance in psychology, which is the uncritical acceptance of methodologies and theories developed in impersonal and industrialized countries
• All psychological information is accepted as fact or as applicable on the psychological discourse globally
• Dangers of Blind Faith in Western Psychology: 'Angat-patong or uni-national dominance in psychology is the uncritical acceptance of methodologies and theories developed in impersonal and industrialized countries'
• What we know about Psychology only came from a tiny portion of the global population