Kish Bar-On, Kati and Lamm, Ehud (2023) Neither Human Normativity nor Human Groupness Are in Humanity’s Genes: A Commentary on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology.”. Perspectives on Psychological Science.
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Heyes presents a compelling account of how cultural evolutionary processes shape and create “rules,” or norms, of social behavior. She suggested that normativity depends on implicit, genetically inherited, domain-general processes and explicit, culturally inherited, domain-specific processes. Her approach challenges the nativist point of view and provides supporting evidence that shows how social interactions are responsible for creating mental processes that assist in understanding and behaving according to rules or norms. We agree. In our commentary, we suggest that it is not only that mental processes for grasping norms are recreated in each generation but also that social interactions shape the kinds of social groups that are recognized (for a more extensive discussion, see Kish Bar-On & Lamm, 2023). We highlight evidence showing that accounts of norm psychology thus require a richer notion of human groups.
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| Keywords: | Norm psychology; Human Evolution; Social Identity; Group Behavior | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution Specific Sciences > Psychology > Social Psychology |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Kati Kish Bar-On | |||||||||
| Date Deposited: | 31 Jul 2023 14:50 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2023 14:50 | |||||||||
| Item ID: | 22345 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Perspectives on Psychological Science | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Journals | |||||||||
| Official URL: | https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187391 | |||||||||
| DOI or Unique Handle: | https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187391 | |||||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Psychology > Evolutionary Psychology Specific Sciences > Cultural Evolution Specific Sciences > Psychology > Social Psychology |
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| Date: | 28 July 2023 | |||||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/22345 |
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