ArticleCurrent opinion in psychology2016
Dopamine-System Genes and Cultural Acquisition: The Norm Sensitivity Hypothesis.
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- Guidelines for Training in Cultural Psychiatry.Canadian journal of psychiatry. Revue canadienne de psychiatrie · 2021Article
- The gray matter volume of the temporoparietal junction varies across cultures: a moderating role of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4).Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- Sex-Specific Functional Connectivity in the Reward Network Related to Distinct Gender Roles.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Genetics of language and its implications on language interventions.Journal of genetics · 2018Review
- Gene by Culture Effects on Emotional Processing of Social Cues among East Asians and European Americans.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- Culture Embrained: Going Beyond the Nature-Nurture Dichotomy.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2017Review
- Reduced orbitofrontal cortical volume is associated with interdependent self-construal.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
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Abstract
Previous research in cultural psychology shows that cultures vary in the social orientation of independence and interdependence. To date, however, little is known about how people may acquire such global patterns of cultural behavior or cultural norms. Nor is it clear what genetic mechanisms may underlie the acquisition of cultural norms. Here, we draw on recent evidence for certain genetic variability in the susceptibility to environmental influences and propose a norm sensitivity hypothesis, which holds that people acquire culture, and rules of cultural behaviors, through reinforcement-mediated social learning processes. One corollary of the hypothesis is that the degree of cultural acquisition should be influenced by polymorphic variants of genes involved in dopaminergic neural pathways, which have been widely implicated in reinforcement learning. We reviewed initial evidence for this prediction and discussed challenges and directions for future research.
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