Pathogen Prevalence, Group Bias, and Collectivism in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample

Human Nature

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 59-75

  Cashdan, Elizabeth ^a   Steele, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Collectivism; Cross cultural analysis; Historical pathogen prevalence; In group bias; Infectious disease

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876092736     PISSN: 10456767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-012-9159-3     Document Type: Article

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