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Sep 16, 2020 · In it, he lays out how people from these societies differ psychologically from most other people throughout human history. The Gazette interviewed Henrich, who is a professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology and its chair, on what being WEIRD is all about.
Dec 27, 2022 · WEIRD societies are characterized by high levels of impersonal trust towards strangers and institutions. The behavioural orientation of WEIRD societies is also largely individualistic, with lower adherence to group norms.
- Sujoy Chakravarty
- Why the acronym WEIRD? The acronym WEIRD—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic—aims to raise people’s consciousness about psychological differences and to emphasize that WEIRD people are but one unusual slice of humanity’s cultural diversity.
- And yet you caution readers not to set up a WEIRD vs. non-WEIRD dichotomy as they read your book. Can you expand on that? That’s right. While WEIRD should raise people’s consciousness about psychological differences, it’s not meant to suggest a simplistic dichotomy or binary worldview.
- What are the big questions this book aims to answer? I’d say there are three, and they are interrelated. First, how can we explain the psychological diversity that has now been documented around the world?
- What’s the connection between culture and psychology? Our minds are frequently understood using a misleading digital computer metaphor, with our brains and psychological processes as the hardware and our cultures—our values, customs and know-how—as the software.
May 17, 2021 · Cultural evolution theory has long been inspired by evolutionary biology. Conceptual analogies between biological and cultural evolution have led to the adoption of a range of formal theoretical approaches from population dynamics and genetics.
- Marco Smolla, Fredrik Jansson, Fredrik Jansson, Laurent Lehmann, Wybo Houkes, Franz J Weissing, Fran...
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Oct 19, 2020 · In 1952, anthropologists Kroeber and Kluckhohn identified 164 definitions of culture and there has been growth rather than rationalisation in the ensuing 70 years. In everyday English, culture is the knowledge and behaviour that characterises a particular group of people. Under this umbrella definition, culture was for many decades the ...
Apr 12, 2011 · Cultural evolution theory recognizes and exploits parallels between biological and cultural change, but tailors its mathematical models and methods to the specific and unique processes of culture. Further impetus has come from the application of phylogenetic methods to interpret aspects of human cultural variation, and reconstruct cultural ...
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Jan 30, 2018 · Damasio traces core components of the human “cultural mind”, such as social behaviour and cooperation, back to the non-human biology of unicellular organisms present at the inception of life.
