{"id":121,"date":"2007-09-04T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-04T14:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=121"},"modified":"2018-04-24T20:55:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T19:55:30","slug":"culture-and-modularity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007_hirschfeld_culture-and-modularity.pdf\">Dan Sperber &#038; Lawrence Hirschfeld (2007) <b>Culture and modularity<\/b>. In P. Carruthers, S. Laurence, S. Stich (eds.), <i>The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition<\/i>. (Oxford University Press), 149-164.<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;&#8230;We agree with standard social science that culture is not human psychology writ large and that it would make little\u00a0sense to seek a psychological reductionist explanation of culture. We believe, however, that psychological factors play an essential role in\u00a0culture. Among these psychological factors, the modular organization of human cognitive abilities favors the recurrence, cross-cultural\u00a0variability, and local stability of a wide range of cultural representations. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dan.sperber.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}