Document Type
Article
Journal/Book Title
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Publication Date
6-2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Volume
33
Issue
2
First Page
99
Last Page
100
Abstract
This commentary will extend the territory claimed in the target article by identifying several other areas in the social sciences where findings from the WEIRD population have been over-generalized. An argument is made that the root problem is the ethnocentrism of scholars, textbook authors, and social commentators, which leads them to take their own cultural values as the norm.
Recommended Citation
Lancy, D.F. (2010) ‘When nurture becomes nature: Ethnocentrism in studies of human development’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2-3), pp. 99–100. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X10000154.
