📆 Besample’s Advent Calendar: Daily Insights from Beyond the West December 10: Date of Birth We all know when we were born because, in Western legal, social, and cultural systems, the date of birth is one of the primary identifiers. But this isn't universal. For example, in

December 9: Marital Status We tend to treat marital status as a simple, binary category — married vs. unmarried — because Western legal and social systems default to monogamy. But in many parts of the world, this framing is incomplete and sometimes even misleading. In countries

💡 Besample’s Advent Calendar — 24 daily insights from beyond the West December 8: Hijra We often treat non-binary gender as something that emerged only in recent decades as a Western manifestation of individual freedoms. But across the world, gender diversity is not new at all

December 5: Loneliness Today’s daily insight from beyond the West* is inspired by research from Micaela Rodriguez, Kathryn Schertz (@kate_schertz), and Ethan Kross (@ethan_kross), powered by data from Besample and other research platforms. We tend to treat loneliness as

🎓 Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) for Ph.D. Candidates with Potential for Cross-Cultural Research 🌍 Three ultimate winners will receive full funding to collect cross-cultural datasets of 3,000 research participants, including translation and localization of studies — all

Behavioral scientists: here’s your daily insight from beyond the West #4 as we continue our countdown to Christmas 💫 December 4: PayPal When it comes to compensating research participants, many Western behavioral scientists imagine it’s simple: just send them money via

Here's your daily insight from beyond the West. This one is #3 on our special Advent Calendar of 2025. December 3: ZIP Codes in Mongolia When researchers sample "representative populations," we usually default to address-based frames, such as ZIP codes, postal registries, or

✨ Continuing this year's countdown to Christmas with our Advent Calendar of Insights from Beyond the West 🌍 Stay tuned for 24 daily reminders that the world is bigger, more diverse, and far less WEIRD than many behavioral scientists assume. Today’s insight #2 is especially

🎄 Advent Calendar from Besample: Doors Beyond the West ✨ This December, we’re opening the doors of a very different kind of Advent calendar — one filled not with chocolates, but with insights from research beyond the West. Every day, we’ll reveal one concept, assumption, or

Why every study should be a cross-cultural study Spoiler: because for decades, science got something very, very wrong. In this Medium piece, I share (with details and citations) my favorite example of Western bias in behavioral research. It perfectly illustrates how even good

🎓 Dissertation Grant (N=3,000) for Best Multi-Country PhD Projects Besample is supporting rigorous multi-country PhD projects by students who will defend in 2026–2027. This grant program has two stages: 🔸 Stage 1: Pilot Studies (N=500) We will select the 25 best

The Story Behind Besample + 🎁 A Welcome Gift for Newcomers @lenajbrandt shared the sequence of events that inspired our founders to build Besample, a platform for behavioral scientists that enables research beyond the West. 👉 Read the story — and receive a welcome gift to

Turkish people aged 18 to... 2000? (Warning: REALLY NERDY content below! But, behavioral scientists, especially cross-cultural researchers, will probably enjoy it 🤓) So yes, 18 to 2006 years old: that’s what our age distribution in Turkey looked like when our first ~3k

This Fall Only ⚡️ Free Demographic Report for Your Next Study Get key demographic insights from 500 respondents in any country available on Besample — to check parameter distributions and sample feasibility before designing your study and applying for IRB approval. Beyond age

🎓 We were excited to join the 120th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (@ASAnews)! It’s our very first time connecting with sociologists at a conference, and our main goal was discovery. The ASA community turned out to be very open and welcoming 🙌 It was