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The Role of Psychology in the Study of Culture

Kelly, Dan and Machery, Edouard and Mallon, Ron and Mason, Kelby and Stich, Steve (2006) The Role of Psychology in the Study of Culture. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    While we are enthusiastic about a Darwinian approach to culture, we argue that the overview presented in the target article does not sufficiently emphasize the crucial explanatory role that psychology plays in the study of culture. We use a number of examples to illustrate the variety of ways that appeal to psychological factors can help explain cultural phenomena.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Additional Information: Commentary on Mesoudi, Whiten, & Laland, forthcoming, Towards a unified science of cultural evolution., Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
    Keywords: cultural evolution, psychology, evolutionary psychology
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Psychology
    Depositing User: Edouard Machery
    Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2006
    Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 11:13
    Item ID: 2653
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/2653

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