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Cultural selves.

Naomi Quinn1

  • 1Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA. naomi.quinn@duke.edu

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
|November 20, 2003
PubMed
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Child rearing practices universally aim to make lessons constant, emotionally arousing, and linked to moral evaluations. These methods shape distinct cultural selves by leveraging children's neural capacities for identity formation.

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Area of Science:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cross-Cultural Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Child rearing varies significantly across cultures.
  • Despite variations, universal patterns exist in how children are raised.
  • Understanding these patterns is key to comprehending human development.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify universal features of child rearing practices.
  • To explore how these practices influence children's learning and self-concept.
  • To examine the neurobiological and cultural underpinnings of distinct cultural selves.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-cultural research involving diverse populations (Americans, Chinese, Germans, Gusii, Ifaluk, Inuit).
  • Analysis of child rearing strategies focusing on lesson constancy, emotional arousal, and moral evaluations.

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  • Examination of the impact on synaptic connections and the development of implicit and explicit selves.

    • Main Results:

    • Three universal features of child rearing were identified: constancy of experience, emotional arousal, and linking lessons to moral evaluations.
    • These features enhance learning, motivation, and memory of lessons.
    • Child rearing practices exploit neural capacities to shape cultural selves and identity.

    Conclusions:

    • Cultural models of child rearing leverage children's neural capacities to achieve human adulthood.
    • Distinct cultural selves emerge from implicit and explicit aspects of child rearing.
    • Culturally shaped identity is deeply influenced by evaluative meanings and motivation.