Reasoning About Cultural and Genetic Transmission: Developmental and Cross-Cultural Evidence From Peru, Fiji, and the United States on How People Make Inferences About Trait Transmission

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 595-610

  Moya, Cristina ^a   Boyd, Robert ^b   Henrich, Joseph ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption paradigm; Cognitive development; Cross cultural psychology; Dual inheritance theory; Folkbiology; Folksociology; Social learning; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIJI; HUMAN; JURISPRUDENCE; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THINKING; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOPTION; ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FIJI; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERU; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; THINKING; UNITED STATES; WILLS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84944681865     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12163     Document Type: Article

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