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You Can't Separate Culture From Psychology From Biology
Joe henrick's research into national psychologies led him to an even more fascinating conclusion. Culture physically rewires our brains and thereby shapes how we think. In a society in which 95 % of adults are high y literate, he writes, people have a thicker corpus colosum than a society where only 5%. People from more individualistic societies tend to focus on central objects. If these kinds of cultural differences are happening at the highest levels, we'd better start understanding this stuff.