While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

Abstract The authors find East Asians to be holistic, attending to the entire field and
assigning causality to it, making relatively little use of categories and formal logic, and …

Storytelling represents a key element in the creation and propagation of culture. Three main
accounts of the adaptive function of storytelling include (a) manipulating the behavior of the …

We constructed a corpus of digitized texts containing about 4% of all books ever printed.
Analysis of this corpus enables us to investigate cultural trends quantitatively. We survey the …

Uncompromising wars, revolution, rights movements, and today's global terrorism are in part
driven by “devoted actors” who adhere to sacred, transcendent values that generate actions …

Las normas sociales, además de garantizar el funcionamiento racional de una sociedad,
aseguran que los mecanismos que rigen las relaciones entre los individuos no se …

The medieval curriculum comprised seven liberal arts, divided into the lower-level trivium
(grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the upper-level quadrivium (geometry, astronomy …

Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of
instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions …

Contemporary mate preferences can provide important clues to human reproductive history.
Little is known about which characteristics people value in potential mates. Five predictions …

Despite a quarter-century of constructivist theorizing in the social sciences and humanities,
ethnic groups continue to be conceived as entities and cast as actors. Journalists …