ABSTRACT
What are the psychological foundations of culture? Authors tend to combine two perspectives when addressing this question. The first is an evolutionary perspective, which depicts Homo sapiens as animals who have evolved from earlier hominid species; cultures, as products of human thought and action, must therefore have resulted from adaptations over the course of evolution. The second is a cognitive science perspective, which
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Jeff Greenberg University of Arizona
Jeff Schimel University of Alberta
Jamie Arndt University of Missouri-Columbia
Tom Pyszczynski University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
depicts humans as information processing systems, a view that derives from the influential metaphor of the human mind as a computer.
