Hi! I've read your book The Blank Slate, am reading your book The Better Angels of Our Nature, and have the Stuff of Thought on one of my shelves and will get to it eventually, needless to say I'm a fan.
I recently read an article about how culture is so pervasive and powerful that research might not be giving us a full picture since so many white, western college kids are the participants in so many of our research studies done in the social sciences. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the issue in regard to social sciences as a whole; mostly on if it’s worthwhile to do studies, and brain scans, on people from different countries and cultures that are outside of the western world so as to get a more complete understanding of all humans and their behavior. And what, if anything, you think might change from that new information.
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Hi! I've read your book The Blank Slate, am reading your book The Better Angels of Our Nature, and have the Stuff of Thought on one of my shelves and will get to it eventually, needless to say I'm a fan.
I recently read an article about how culture is so pervasive and powerful that research might not be giving us a full picture since so many white, western college kids are the participants in so many of our research studies done in the social sciences. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the issue in regard to social sciences as a whole; mostly on if it’s worthwhile to do studies, and brain scans, on people from different countries and cultures that are outside of the western world so as to get a more complete understanding of all humans and their behavior. And what, if anything, you think might change from that new information.
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