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When nurture becomes nature: Ethnocentrism in studies of human development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2010

David F. Lancy
David F. Lancy
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Program in Anthropology, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322. David.Lancy@usu.eduhttp://www.usu.edu/anthro/davidlancyspages/index.html
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 99 - 100
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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