Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame
Abstract
Significance This set of experiments shows that in 15 traditional small-scale societies there is an extraordinarily close correspondence between ( i ) the intensity of shame felt if one exhibited specific acts or traits and ( ii ) the magnitude of devaluation expressed in response to those acts or traits by local audiences, and even foreign audiences. Three important and widely acknowledged sources of cultural variation between communities—geographic proximity, linguistic similarity, and religious similarity—all failed to account for the strength of between-community correlations in the shame–devaluation link. This supplies a parallel line of evidence that shame is a universal system, part of our species’ cooperative biology, rather than a product of cultural evolution.
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Daniel Sznycer, Dimitris Xygalatas, Elizabeth Agey, Sarah Alami, Xiao-Fen An, Kristina I. Ananyeva, … John Tooby (2018). Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805016115
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title = {Cross-cultural invariances in the architecture of shame},
author = {Sznycer, Daniel and Xygalatas, Dimitris and Agey, Elizabeth and Alami, Sarah and An, Xiao-Fen and Ananyeva, Kristina I. and Atkinson, Quentin Douglas and Broitman, Bernardo R. and Conte, Thomas J. and Flores, Carola and Hitokoto, Hidefumi and Kharitonov, Alexander N. and Onyishi, Charity Neejide and Onyishi, Ike Ernest and Romero, Pedro and Schrock, Joshua M. and Snodgrass, J. Josh and Sugiyama, Lawrence S. and Takemura, Kosuke null and Townsend, Cathryn and Zhuang, Jin-Ying and Aktipis, Athena and Cronk, Lee and Cosmides, Leda and Tooby, John},
year = {2018},
journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
doi = {10.1073/pnas.1805016115}
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