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Establishing psychological universals

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Universals of thought and behaviour across variable cultural experiences can reveal uniquely human cognition. However, culturally informed and theoretically motivated sampling is needed to reveal true universals.

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Fig. 1: Sampling strategies for establishing psychological universals.

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The author thanks M. Frank, H. Over and C. Heyes for comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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