BIOB32H3 Lecture Notes - Big Five Personality Traits, Personality Psychology, Cultural Universal
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To discover the principles underlying the cultural diversity: 2. To discover how human psychology shapes culture: 3. To discover how cultural understandings in turn shape our psychology. Three major approaches to culture: cultural variants are the personality attributes that vary from group to group, three approaches to explaining and exploring personality across cultures, evoked culture, transmitted culture, cultural universals. Evoked culture: evoked culture: cultural differences created by differing environmental conditions activating a predictable set of responses, two criteria are necessary to explain cultural variations, 1. Environmental differences in the degree to which the underlying mechanism is activated: neither criteria alone is adequate for a complete explanation. Evoked cooperation: high-variance conditions: under high-variance conditions, there are tremendous benefits to sharing, you share your meat today with an unlucky hunter, and next week they will share their meat with you, egalitarianism: In china, marriages are lasting, divorce is rare, and parents invest heavily in their children over extended periods.
