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Cultural consonance, deprivation, and psychological responses for niche construction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Robert J. Quinlan
Robert J. Quinlan*
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Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4910. rquinlan@wsu.edu http://public.wsu.edu/~rquinlan/
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Abstract

Cultural consonance is a measure of culturally encoded goals relevant to psychological, behavioral, and health responses to deprivation. Similar to extrinsic mortality, low cultural consonance and an associated inability to predict adaptive outcomes may activate impulsivity, delay discounting, and reward seeking. Low cultural consonance could promote “fast life history” in low-quality environments and motivate cultural niche construction for local adaptation.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e337
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