Is Security Human Factors Research Skewed Towards Western Ideas and Habits?

This post summarizes the paper "How WEIRD is Usable Privacy and Security Research?" which finds that UPS studies disproportionately recruit from WEIRD populations—more than in HCI—limiting generalizability. The authors cite geographic and linguistic barriers, local recruitment, and missing demographic reporting as drivers, and recommend facilitating replication, addressing language/geography in study and recruitment methods, and prioritizing topics relevant to non-WEIRD populations, suggesting usability work should be localized.