ACCTG 1 Lecture Notes - Ingroups And Outgroups, Steven Pinker, Personality Psychology
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Can be physical, behavioural, attitudinal, or psychological. 3 goals: discover principles underlying cultural diversity, discover how human psychology shapes culture, discover how cultural understandings shape psychology. Models used to explore and explain personality across cultures. Cultural differences as predictable set of responses caused by different environments: e. g. calluses or sweating as reactions to environment. Two factors important: universal underlying mechanism, environmental differences. Evoked cooperation: food sharing can be evoked in tribes by high-variance products (those that are not easily and often available, environmental conditions can evoke cooperation in food sharing. Evoked mating strategies: child-rearing can influence later mating behaviour in that children from stable families/ homes, tend to later seek out one stable partnership, and engage in intercourse/ reproductivity later than children from unstable homes. Honours, insults, and evoked aggression: economic means of subsistence can affect the degree to which a culture becomes one of honour".
