EEB 2202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Core Design, Biome, Dinka Language
2 May 2017
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Eeb 2202 final exam (turchin): introduction to culture. Subjects are told they are participating in experiment on judgment. In insult condition they are bumped and called asshole by confederate. Subjects then play chicken with confederate (a 250 lb linebacker on the um football team). Both southerners and northerners gave less room after the insult however the discrepancy of the south was 110 in 40 in and the north was 80 in 40 in. Higher levels of cortisol and testosterone in both cases in southern person. Compared: moist plains (pastoral farmers) to dry hills (agricultural herders) (within south) Poverty: more homicides in hills, but incomes are the same. Slavery: more homicides in hills, but slavery prevalence goes in the opposite direction. Temperature: more homicides in hills, but temperatures are the same. Expressed attitudes ==> personal honor more highly valued in the south than the north! (herders) What was the explanation of the difference in homicide rates favored by nisbett and.
