Explaining why experimental behavior varies across cultures: a missing step in "the weirdest people in the world?".
In this commentary, I argue that to properly assess the significance of the cross-cultural findings reviewed by Henrich et al., one needs to understand better the causes of the variation in performance in experimental tasks across cultures.
Machery
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Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA. machery@pitt.edu
D001519:Behavior; D003071:Cognition; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D006801:Humans; D044382:Population Groups; D011340:Problem Solving; D012106:Research