Complementarity Theory: Why Human Social Capacities Evolved to Require Cultural Complements
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Complementarity theory: why human social capacities evolved to require cultural complements.
This article introduces complementarity theory, which explains the psychology of cultural diversity as a product of evolved social proclivities that enable-and require-people to coordinate action in culture-specific ways. The theory presents evolutionary processes and psychological mechanisms that may account for the cultural variability of social coordination devices such as language, relation...
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عنوان ژورنال: Personality and Social Psychology Review
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1088-8683,1532-7957
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0401_7