Social Structure, Infectious Diseases, Disasters, Secularism, and Cultural Change in America

Psychological Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 311-324

  Grossmann, Igor ^a   Varnum, Michael E W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cross cultural differences; cultural change; cultural products; ecology; individualism; open data; social class

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DISASTER; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SECULARISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; DISASTERS; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; SECULARISM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84924903171     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614563765     Document Type: Article

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