Cross-cultural evolutionary psychology

Apicella, Coren L.; Barrett, H. Clark

doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2015.08.015

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“…Also, the Hadza represent one of many hunter-gatherer populations and ideally, the findings should be replicated in other societies. Such work is important in moving from "proof-of-concept" demonstrations to generalizable knowledge (Apicella & Barrett, 2016). The second limitation is the use of foraging reputation as a proxy of foraging ability.…”

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“…Finally, because the Hadza remain relatively isolated from Western culture, do not use birth control, and practice a way of life that more closely approximates the lives of our ancestors compared to agriculturalists, pastoralists, and farmers, they provide a valuable resource for testing evolutionary hypotheses (Apicella & Barrett, 2016). Some have questioned whether the Hadza are atypical because they still practice hunting and gathering when all other surrounding groups have adopted newer modes of subsistence.…”

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Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation

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Previous research with hunter-gatherers has found that women perceive men with voices manipulated to be lower in pitch to be better hunters, and men perceive women with lower pitch to be better gatherers. Here, we test if actual voice pitch is associated with hunting and gathering reputations in men and women, respectively. We find that voice pitch does relate to foraging reputation in men, but not in women, with better hunters having a lower voice pitch. In addition, we find that the previously documented relationship between voice pitch and reproductive success no longer holds when controlling for hunting reputation, but hunting reputation remains a significant predictor of reproductive success when controlling for voice pitch. This raises the possibility that voice pitch is being selected for in hunter-gatherers because of the relationship between voice pitch and hunting reputation.

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Hadza Men With Lower Voice Pitch Have a Better Hunting Reputation

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“…The dearth of systematic research outside of Western cultural contexts is a major impediment to theoretical progress in the psychological sciences (Legare & Nielsen, 2015;Rowley & Camacho, 2015). Where psychological researchers assume data are not specific to the sample of participants under direct test (i.e., that findings are generalizable) lack of attention to cultural variation and its psychological consequences risks yielding incomplete, and potentially inaccurate, conclusions (e.g., Apicella & Barrett, 2016;Evans & Schamberg, 2009;Mani, Mullainathan, Shafir, & Zhao, 2013;Votruba-Drzal, Miller, & Coley, in press).…”

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The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action

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Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

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Psychology must confront the bias in its broad literature toward the study of participants developing in environments unrepresentative of the vast majority of the world's population. Here, we focus on the implications of addressing this challenge, highlight the need to address overreliance on a narrow participant pool, and emphasize the value and necessity of conducting research with diverse populations. We show that high-impact-factor developmental journals are heavily skewed toward publishing articles with data from WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic) populations. Most critically, despite calls for change and supposed widespread awareness of this problem, there is a habitual dependence on convenience sampling and little evidence that the discipline is making any meaningful movement toward drawing from diverse samples. Failure to confront the possibility that culturally specific findings are being misattributed as universal traits has broad implications for the construction of scientifically defensible theories and for the reliable public dissemination of study findings.

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“…We argue that studying the flexibility and diversity of children's sociocognitive development provides insight into the evolution and ontogeny of human culture. This same flexibility and diversity provides an interesting evolutionary problem—if children's capacity for social learning explains cultural transmission, the psychological mechanisms should be universal, but these psychological mechanisms must also be responsive to diverse ontogenetic contexts and cultural ecologies (Apicella & Barrett, ; Hrdy, ; Legare & Harris, ; Nielsen et al., ). To address this problem, we must first ask: H is culture acquired?…”

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