PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Joseph Henrich, Premarital Sex, Dyslexia

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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, cultureshared ideas and behaviors that one generation
passes on to the nextmatters.
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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