DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Syllogism, Social Cognition, It Gets Better Project
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Cognition in cross-cultural perspective (galotti) chapter 16. Redget effect = copying of inventions; over the time it gets better as the culture. Endowment effect = if you own something you value it more (example with kathies. Language, habits, dress, beliefs, philosophies, categorizations, self-definitions, . Cultural relativism = a process is specific to a particular culture or set of cultures. Cultural universality = phenomena that are common to humankind (not culture specific, such as the use of language) but they can be influenced by culture. Since you cannot randomly assign subjects to a culture, the interpretation and conduction of these cross-cultural studies and their experimental results is very difficult. What culture is to humans, water is to fish. People from different countries often see things differently. Conducted with a variety of south africans that had to describe 4 pictures, each with different depth cues.
