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Does the research cited distinguish between hardwired vs culturally (or developmentally) entrenched behaviour? I haven't followed all the links so I'm asking, n
by crispinb 7y ago
Does the research cited distinguish between hardwired vs culturally (or developmentally) entrenched behaviour? I haven't followed all the links so I'm asking, not answering, but if the research doesn't make that distinction, then the 'hardwired' aspect is unwarranted, and the title should have been something like "Contemporary humans tend to dismiss ...".
In general, most social psychology research is still conducted on WEIRDS (and if the current Euro-American 'global' culture continues to spread, this is going to become an increasingly harder problem to tease out). Richard Nisbett & others claim to have shown that many cognitive behavioural regularities merely assumed to be 'hardwired' turn out not to be universal, therefore not hardwired at all.