PSYC14H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ice Cream, Egalitarianism, Hazel Rose Markus
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Psyc14 lec 04: the problem is that we keep assuming that there is a point at which we became human. This is about as unlikely as there being a precise wavelength at which the color spectrum turns from orange into red. The typical proposition of how this happened is that of a mental breakthrough a miraculous spark that made us radically different. But if we have learned anything from more than 50 years of research on chimpanzees and other intelligent animals, it is that the wall between human and animal cognition is like a swiss cheese. It was and continues to be a major challenge, for sure. Our countries are very different, not just in culture and mentality but also in economic terms. Slovenia, for example, is at a completely different level of gdp per capita than, say, bosnia or montenegro.
