International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, Vol 15(3), 2026, 139-141; doi:10.1027/2157-3891/a000155
For this special issue, we were particularly interested in presenting contributions from the majority world which, despite representing most working people, still remains underrepresented in academic publications. A dominant, often implicit, premise is that psychological constructs, models, and theories describe fundamental human attitudes, ways of thinking, and/or behaving and that they thus apply universally. This premise consequently informs what is researched, how the research is conducted, and what research gets published. This is even though it is based on specific ways of perceiving the world and on samples which comprise WEIRD individuals, that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich individuals living in, at least somewhat, Democratic societies (Henrich et al., 2010). The five articles which make up this special issue all address The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth, but individual contributions also focus on SDG 1 (No poverty), SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing), and SDG 10 (Reduced Inequalities). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)