Comment on F. J. Gil-White's article 'Are ethnic groups biological "species" to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories'

By Rita Astuti. 2001

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “5) Leadership and Status: Humans have at least two types of status: dominance and prestige (Henrich and Gil-White 2001; Johnson et al. 2007).”
Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification (2008, result): “This work is consistent with experimental findings in psychology and field data from sociology and anthropology showing that both children and adults have a powerful tendency to learn a wide variety of things from successful individuals (Henrich and Gil-White 2001).”
Priorities in social categories. (2010, background): “…stems primarily from studies of individuals in Northern America and Western Europe, and that not all societies would view skin color as being equally critical in person perception (and may instead focus on other dimensions such as ethnicity that are not always visually depicted; Gil-White, 2001).”
Weird people, yes, but also weird experiments (2010, unknown): “22 (Henrich & Henrich, 2007), and Mongolian herdsmen (Gil-White, 2001).”
Evolved Disease-Avoidance Mechanisms and Contemporary Xenophobic Attitudes (2004, background): “The violation of local cultural norms not only signals the threat of contagion, but may also signal a threat to social efficiency and effective group functioning (Gil-White, 2001).”
Essentially Biased: Why People Are Fatalistic About Genes (2017, background): “In addition, as with essences, genes are understood to be transferred from one generation to another (Gil-White, 2001).”
Towards a unified science of cultural evolution. (2006, background): “Following Gil-White (2001), Machery and Faucher argue that this puzzling regularity is explained by the character of the psychological mechanisms that underlie racial cognition: The observable cues associated with race mistakenly trigger a hypothesized system for ethnic cognition, and that system…”
Dual-inheritance theory: The evolution of human cultural capacities and cultural evolution (2007, methodology): “The model assumes these behaviors are not observable, because many norms are unconscious and not easy to anticipate (Nave 2000; Gil-White 2001).”
The evolution of costly displays, cooperation and religion: credibility enhancing displays and their implications for cultural evolution (2009, background): “One class of cognitive mechanisms, often glossed as prestigebiased transmission (Henrich & Gil-White, 2001), proposes that learners use model-based cues to figure out who, among their potential models, is most likely to possess adaptive information suitable to the learner's situation (e.g., his/her…”
Culture, essentialism, and agency: Are individuals universally believed to be more real entities than groups? (2005, background): “Some researchers (e.g. Gil-White, 2001) suggest that social groups are essentialized when they are believed to have biological or genetic bases.”