PSY 352 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Extraversion And Introversion, Acculturation, Liberal Conservatism

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 352
• Professor: Lazarwicz

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Lecture outline #18: culture & personality culture: group of people with ingroup similarities, differences from outgroups: physical, psychological, behavioral, attitudinal. 3 approaches to personality & culture: evoked culture evoked culture: cultural differences as product of different environmental pressures. Environmental pressure to activate mechanism e. g. evoked cooperation: Cosmides & tooby (1992): sharing food among hunter-gatherer cultures (cid:498)high variance(cid:499) foods sporadic availability (cid:498)low variance(cid:499) foods consistent availability less need to share less cooperation: benefits to sharing more cooperation. E. g. ache tribe (paraguay: gathered food = low variance. Gathered food typically not shared: hunted food = high variance. Depends more on luck (60% chance of success) Meat given to (cid:498)distributor(cid:499) distributes based on family size. Food variance positively correlated with egalitarian beliefs: e. g. !kung san highly variable food strong egalitarian beliefs. Gana san low variance food hoard food, rarely share it e. g. evoked mating strategies. E. g. children of divorced parents more impulsive, reach puberty earlier, have sex earlier, more sex partners.