Field evidence for two paths to cross-cultural competence: implications for cultural dynamics.

ABSTRACT: Interaction between members of culturally distinct (ethnic) groups is an important driver of the evolutionary dynamics of human culture, yet relevant mechanisms remain underexplored. For example, cultural loss resulting from integration with culturally distinct immigrants or colonial majority populations remains a topic whose political salience exceeds our understanding of mechanisms that may drive or impede it. For such dynamics, one mediating factor is the ability to interact successfully across cultural boundaries (cross-cultural competence). However, measurement difficulties often hinder its investigation. Here, simple field methods in a uniquely suited Amazonian population and Bayesian item-response theory models are used to derive the first experience-level measure of cross-cultural

SUBMITTER: Bunce JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10427313 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature