Pathogen Prevalence, Group Bias, and Collectivism in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
Pathogen Prevalence, Group Bias, and Collectivism in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample
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DOI：
10.1007/s12110-012-9159-3
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发表时间：
2013-03-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Steele, Matthew
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作者：
Cashdan, Elizabeth;Steele, Matthew
有人认为，在病原体负荷高的地区，人们更有可能避开外来者，更倾向于群体内的人，并持有集体主义和随大流的价值观。跨国研究支持了这些预测。在本文中，我们为标准跨文化样本的186个文化提供了新的病原体代码，并将它们与现有的病原体和人种学数据一起使用，试图复制这些跨国发现。为了支持这一理论，我们发现在高病原体地区的文化更有可能将儿童社会化到集体主义价值观（服从而不是自力更生）。有一些证据表明，病原体与成虫传播减少有关。然而，我们没有发现病原体与我们的群体偏见（群体忠诚和仇外心理）或群体间接触之间存在关联的证据。
It has been argued that people in areas with high pathogen loads will be more likely to avoid outsiders, to be biased in favor of in-groups, and to hold collectivist and conformist values. Cross-national studies have supported these predictions. In this paper we provide new pathogen codes for the 186 cultures of the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample and use them, together with existing pathogen and ethnographic data, to try to replicate these cross-national findings. In support of the theory, we found that cultures in high pathogen areas were more likely to socialize children toward collectivist values (obedience rather than self-reliance). There was some evidence that pathogens were associated with reduced adult dispersal. However, we found no evidence of an association between pathogens and our measures of group bias (in-group loyalty and xenophobia) or intergroup contact.