PSYC 2P30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gossip, Incest Taboo, Cultural Diversity
12 May 2016
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How are we influenced by human nature and cultural diversity: genes, evolution, and behavior. Cultural diversity: our behavior is socially programmed, culture and behavior. Cultural similarity: universal friendship norms, universal trait dimensions, universal social belief dimensions: cynicism, reward for application, spirituality, fate control, universal status norms, norms of war. How are gender similarities and differences explained: gender. Characteristics, whether biological or socially influenced, by which people define male and female. Women: describe themselves in more relational terms, experience more relationship-linked emotions, more empathetic, gravitate toward jobs that reduce inequalities. Focus on tasks and on connections with large groups. Men: respond to stress with fight or flight response, gravitate toward jobs that enhance inequalities. Women"s wages in industrial countries average 77 percent of men"s. Men tend to be more autocratic; women more democratic. How are gender similarities and differences explained: aggression. Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone.
