When nurture becomes nature: ethnocentrism in studies of human development.
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.
Lancy
David F
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Program in Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA. David.Lancy@usu.edu
D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D003071:Cognition; D003469:Culture; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D012919:Social Behavior