Cold and warm relationships: A universal metaphor?
Two papers have recently come out on the relationship between physical and interpersonal warmth.
Pedersen's illustration of Andersen's tale "The Little Match Girl"
The first, by Zhong and Leonardel
The spontaneous expression of pride and shame
It's quite refreshing to see such a creative use of methodology to investigate cross-cultural universals:
The present research examined whether the recognizable nonverbal expressions associated with
Cumulative cultural evolution in the lab
A new paper studying cultural evolution (in that case language-like evolution) experimentally by the Edinburgh crew.
I’m afraid there is no non-gated version yet, but the PNAS version is here.
Culture and the Brain
In the last Nature Reviews Neuroscience, a paper reviewing the work showing cultural differences in brain activation. I'm afraid there's no non-gated version, but here's the abstract:
Our brains and
The natural order of events
An interesting paper in the last PNAS. Susan Goldin-Meadow and her colleagues have demonstrated that speakers from very different language groups all process the order of events in a similar way in
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