Cultural affordances
Cultural affordances
Singh emphasizes how individual-level processes, including motivation, shape cultural evolution. I suggest this approach can be enriched by considering cultural affordances—the goal-relevant opportunities and threats that a cultural variant might provide to an individual. This framework might be useful for explaining not only cultural universals, but also nuances in variation between and within cultures.
Moon, Jordan W.
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Moon, Jordan W.
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Moon, Jordan W.
(2025)
Cultural affordances.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
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Abstract
Singh emphasizes how individual-level processes, including motivation, shape cultural evolution. I suggest this approach can be enriched by considering cultural affordances—the goal-relevant opportunities and threats that a cultural variant might provide to an individual. This framework might be useful for explaining not only cultural universals, but also nuances in variation between and within cultures.
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Accepted/In Press date: 5 December 2025
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/509023
ISSN: 0140-525X
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