PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Schadenfreude, Agreeableness, U.S. Route 3
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Cultural variations - within-group similarities and between-group differences can be of any sort physical, psychological, behavioral and attitudinal. Cultural personality psychology generally has three goals: to discover the principles underlying the cultural diversity, to discover how human psychology shapes culture, to discover how cultural understandings in turn shape our psychology. On one day, one hunter may be successful but another hunter may be empty-handed: there are tremendous benefits to sharing. One week, the hunter shares his meat with the unlucky hunter and next week, he will share meat with the former: the benefits of engaging in cooperative food sharing increase under conditions of high variance, e. g. ) Ache tribe hunter will deposit their kill to a distributor where he/she will allocate portions depending on family size. !kung san"s food supply is highly variable = share food and express egalitarian beliefs: being called stingy is one of the worst insults, eg.
