title: When nurture becomes nature: ethnocentrism in studies of human development.
abstract: This commentary will extend the territory claimed in the target article by identifying several other areas in the social sciences where findings from the WEIRD population have been over-generalized. An argument is made that the root problem is the ethnocentrism of scholars, textbook authors, and social commentators, which leads them to take their own cultural values as the norm.
authors.affiliation: Program in Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA. David.Lancy@usu.edu
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Lancy
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D012919:Social Behavior