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Nato Lagidze

Nato Lagidze is a writer and researcher with an academic background in psychology. She investigates self-compassion, emotional intelligence, decision-making, and psychological well-being. Her work draws on academic research and applies it to the everyday.

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I'm WEIRD, it turns out, and so is almost everyone psychology has ever studied

I found out this year that I am WEIRD — a term psychologists use for the narrow slice of humanity, roughly twelve percent of the world's population, whose responses have quietly stood in for the entire species.

Jul 17, 2026