PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Behavioral Geography, Physical Attractiveness, Pluralistic Ignorance
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Chapter 3: cultural evolution: manners differ across cultures because people are socialized to different sets of norms and customs, german sociologist norbert elias, in his classic work the civilizing, argues that western. Proximal causes: are those that have direct and immediate relations with their effects. Distal causes: are those initial differences that lead to effects over long periods, often through indirect relations. Diamond"s thesis is a powerful argument that cultural differences can originate in geographical differences. Diamond proposes that thousands of years of dense populations living among livestock in eurasia led to the development of many diseases over the centuries that the survivors and their descendants ultimately developed resistance to. Evoked culture: is the notion that all people, regardless of where they are from, have certain biologically encoded behavioral repertoires that are potentially accessible to them, and these repertoires are engaged when the appropriate situational conditions are present.
