Cultural Adaptations to Environmental Variability: An Evolutionary Account of East–West Differences

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Culture as situated cognition: Cultural mindsets, cultural fluency, and meaning making (2011, background): “In that sense, culture entails the specific methods and the general styles used to adapt to a local environment and to the stability of that environment over time (Chang et al., 2011).”
The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity (2012, background): “, individual learning) is high or fatal (Chang et al., 2011).”
The Chinese classroom paradox: A cross-cultural comparison of teacher controlling behaviors. (2012, background): “As Chang et al. (2011) argued, compliance and conformity may be adaptive learning strategies of students in Eastern culture.”
Higher frequency of social learning in China than in the West shows cultural variation in the dynamics of cultural evolution (2015, background): “Recent hypotheses for the origin of cultural variation in human learning and cognition include variation in historical rates of environmental change [24], subsistence practices [39] or pathogen prevalence [40].”