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The document provides an overview of topics related to genes, culture and gender including natural selection, evolutionary psychology, culture, norms, personal space, gender, cultural diversity, empathy, aggression, gender roles, and how males and females differ in areas like play, friendships, and family relations.

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Gender Roles and Cultural Influence

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Chapter 5: Genes, Culture and Gender



Natural selection
Evolutionary process by which heritable traits that best enable organisms to survive
and reproduce in particular environments
Passed to ensuing generations
Evolutionary psychology Study of the evolution of cognition and behavior using principles of natural selection
Culture Enduring behaviors, ideas, and traditions shared by a large group of people
Transmitted from one generation to the next
Norms Standards for accepted and expected behavior
Proper behavior what is normal
Personal space Buffer zone we like to maintain around our bodies
Size depending on our familiarity with whoever near us
Gender Characteristics (biological or socially influenced) by which is defined male or female
How are we influenced by
nature and cultural
diversity?
Evolutionary human kinship
Cultural diversity
Genes, evolution
and behavior
Natural selection*
Evolutionary psychology*
Culture and
behavior
Culture*
1. Cultural diversity
2. Norms: Expected behavior*
3. Expressiveness
4. Punctuality
5. Rule-breaking
6. Personal space*
7. Cultural Similarity
Universal friendship norms
Trait dimensions
Social belief dimensions
Status norms
Incest taboo
Norms of war
Empathy Vicarious experience of anothers feelings
Putting oneself in anothers shoes
Aggression Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone
Delivering electric shocks or saying something likely to hurt feelings
Androgynous Mixing both masculine and feminine characteristics
Gender roles Set of behavior expectations for males and females
Interaction A relationship in which the effect of one factor depends on another
How are males and
females different?
Genes
Independence vs.
Connectedness
1. Play
2. Friendships
3. Vocations
4. Family relations
5. Smiling
6. Empathy
Social Dominance
Aggression
Sexuality
Evolution and Gender
- explain gender variations
Gender and
mating
preferences

Reflections on
evolutionary
psychology

Gender and
hormones

Influence of culture reg
gender roles
Vary with culture
Vary over time
Peer-transmitted
culture


Biology, culture, and
gender
Biology and
culture

Power of the
situation and the
person

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