PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joseph Henrich, Premarital Sex, Dyslexia
PSYC 1010 Lecture 10 Notes
Introduction
Gender Psychology
• What can we learn about people in general from psychological studies done in one time
and place?
• Often with people from what Joseph Henrich, Steven Heine, and Ara Norenzayan (2010)
call the WEIRD cultures (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic)
• As we will see time and again, culture—shared ideas and behaviors that one generation
passes on to the next—matters.
• Our culture shapes our behavior.
• It influences our standards of promptness and frankness, our attitudes toward
premarital sex and varying body shapes, our tendency to be casual or formal
• Our willingness to make eye contact, our conversational distance, and much, much
more
• Being aware of such differences, we can restrain our assumptions that others will think
and act as we do.
• It is also true, however, that our shared biological heritage unites us as a universal
human family.
• The same underlying processes guide people everywhere
• People diagnosed with specific learning disorder (formerly called dyslexia) exhibit the
same brain malfunction whether they are Italian, French, or British (Paulesu et al.,
2001).
• Variation in languages may impede communication across cultures.
• Yet all languages share deep principles of grammar, and people from opposite
hemispheres can communicate with a smile or a frown.
• People in different cultures vary in feelings of loneliness.
• But across cultures, loneliness is magnified by shyness, low self-esteem, and being
unmarried (Jones et al., 1985; Rokach et al., 2002).
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