• Individualism and Personal Motivation
• Self-focus, self-esteem, and self-enhancement
• Guilt over shame
• Dispositional thinking (personality): Attribution Errors and Cognitive Dissonance
• Low conformity and deference to tradition/elders
• Patience, self-regulation, and self-control
• Time thrift and hard work (value of labor)
• Desire for control and love of choice
• Impersonal Prosociality (and Related Worldviews)
• Impartial principles over contextual particularism
• Trust, fairness, honesty, and cooperation with anonymous others, strangers, and impersonal
• stitutions (e.g., government)
• An emphasis on mental states, especially in moral judgment
• Muted concerns for revenge but willingness to punish third parties
• Reduced in-group favoritism
• Free will: notion that individuals make their own choices and those choices matter
• Moral universalism: thinking that moral truths exist in the way mathematical laws exist
• Linear time and notions of progress
• Perceptual and Cognitive Abilities and Biases
• Analytical over holistic thinking
• Attention to foreground and central actors
• Endowment effect—overvaluing our own stuff
• Field independence: isolating objects from background
• Overconfidence (of our own valued abilities)

Joseph Patrick Henrich, The WEIRDest people in the world: How the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous, New York, 2020, p. 64