I loved this article - it has ramifications that challenge the very cornerstones of the liberal orthodox thinking in both psychology and economics. Given time people in the same Country would behave in similar ways? Do we have common evolved psychological traits?

The reaction of some scientists to his work was similar to those challenging other sacred cows, such as global warming. The icing on the cake for me is the sections on religion, what heresy!

http://www.psmag.com/magazines/pacific-standard-cover-story/joe-henrich-weird-ultimatum-game-shaking-up-psychology-economics-53135/

If you take a broad look at the social science curriculum of the last few decades, it becomes a little more clear why modern graduates are so unmoored. 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. Many anthropologists took to the navel gazing of postmodernism and swore off attempts at rationality and science, which were disparaged as weapons of cultural imperialism.

Another quote from the aeticle :

In the end they titled their paper “The Weirdest People in the World?” (pdf) By “weird” they meant both unusual and Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.

So the summation of the article is basically that social science, as taught today, covers only Western thought (and 70% American based), with the rest of the world not understood.

Seems right to me - I always thought that social science, social workers, political correctbess, etc., etc., were horse's droppings. Now it has so been stated - by a social scientist.