PSY220H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Gossip, Dispositio, Evolutionary Psychology
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At 8 months of age, we display a fear of strangers. We are all offspring of hominids that had lived in africa. Darwinian natural selection; heritable, favorable, and reproducible traits. Genes increasing the odds of survival survive. Nature predisposes us to learn whatever culture has planned for us; we are born with brains capable of language. Norms are culture-specific accepted ideas about appropriate behavior. Cultures vary in their norms for expressiveness, punctuality, rule-breaking, and personal space. Passing encounter study how american and japanese differed in norms. Societies exposed to threats such as territorial conflict, or resource scarcity tend to be (cid:862)tighter(cid:863) (cid:272)ultures, (cid:449)ith stro(cid:374)g, e(cid:374)for(cid:272)ed (cid:374)or(cid:373)s. There is some universality to different cultures; norms, traits (big 5), beliefs etc. Two dimensions of diversity that impact self-concepts and social relationships are race and gender. Similar with regard to development in infancy.
