Explaining why experimental behavior varies across cultures: A missing step in “The weirdest people in the world?”

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 33 (2-3):101-102 (2010)
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In this commentary, I argue that to properly assess the significance of the cross-cultural findings reviewed by Henrich et al., one needs to understand better the causes of the variation in performance in experimental tasks across cultures

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