University of Tennessee at Knoxville psychologist Lowell Gaertner and his colleagues argued that examining surface differences among cultures (the phenotype) does little to advance understanding of universal human behavior or genotype.
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- Are your findings 'WEIRD'? - American Psychological Association (apa.org)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44671881_It's_not_WEIRD_it's_WRONG_When_Researchers_Overlook_uNderlying_Genotypes_they_will_not_detect_universal_processes (researchgate.net)
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/gaertner_sedikides_cai_brown_2010.pdf (southampton.ac.uk)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/its-not-weird-its-wrong-when-researchers-overlook-underlying-genotypes-they-will-not-detect-universal-processes/FF5CFE65B9B6856036E4B06460FA540D (cambridge.org)
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