Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Traditionally, scholars have debated linguistic origins based on indirect clues—symbolic artifacts, brain size, or the complexity of tool-making. Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new genomic study, published in Frontiers in Psychology 1 , approaches the problem differently. Frontiers in Psychology , 16. 1 Miyagawa, S.,

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Peer teaching strategies give students the opportunity to learn from one another and contribute to a culture of collaboration. Creating and sharing artifacts of learning helps everyone learn 5. Annual Review of Psychology, 49, 345–375.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And it's very easy in our culture to default to a punitive approach in response to a kid who misbehaves. Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 6, 2024

Instead, Slimak argues for a more holistic approach that focuses on understanding Neanderthals as individuals with their own unique culture and identity. We have fragmented human knowledge into various disciplines—anthropology, psychology, sociology—but none of these fragments fully encompass what it means to be human.”

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

It approaches the comparative study of human experience, behavior, facts, and artifacts from a dual sociocultural and psychological most often psychodynamic perspective.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While its role in Aztec rituals and warfare has long intrigued archaeologists, recent research published in Communications Psychology 1 explores its impact on the human brain. This study provides new insights into how these whistles amplified fear, heightened emotional states, and reinforced the psychological power of Aztec rituals.

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