Table of Contents
Biographical Notes ix
Foreword: On Culture and Biology xvii
Preface: Why Culture and Biology? xxiii
Part I General Issues in Culture and Biology Interplay
1 Introduction to Culture and Biology Interplay 3Jose M. Causadias, Eva H. Telzer, and Nancy A. Gonzales
2 Integrating Culture and Biology in Psychological Research: Conceptual Clarifications and Recommendations 31Moin Syed and Ummul-Kiram Kathawalla
3 Understanding Religion from Cultural and Biological Perspectives 55Stefanie B. Northover and Adam B. Cohen
Part II Animal Culture
4 Introduction to Animal Culture: Is Culture Uniquely Human? 81Charles T. Snowdon
5 Comparing and Contrasting Primate and Cetacean Culture 105Jennifer Botting, Erica van deWaal, and Luke Rendell
6 Cultural Phenomena in Cooperatively Breeding Primates 129Charles T. Snowdon
Part III Cultural Genomics
7 How Are Genes Related to Culture? An Introduction to the Field of Cultural Genomics 153Jose M. Causadias and Kevin M. Korous
8 Dual Inheritance, Cultural Transmission, and Niche Construction 179Michael J. O’Brien and R. Alexander Bentley
9 How the Study of Religion and Culture Informs Genetics and Vice Versa 203Ronda F. Lo and Joni Y. Sasaki
Part IV Cultural Neurobiology
10 An Introduction to Cultural Neurobiology: Evidence from Physiological Stress Systems 227Leah D. Doane, Michael R. Sladek, and Emma K. Adam
11 Relations among Culture, Poverty, Stress, and Allostatic Load 255Stacey N. Doan and Gary W. Evans
12 Biological Consequences of Unfair Treatment: A Theoretical and Empirical Review 279Anthony D. Ong, Saarang Deshpande, and David R.Williams
13 Cultural Experiences, Social Ties, and Stress: Focusing on the HPA Axis 317Shu-wenWang and Belinda Campos
14 Cultural Influences on Parasympathetic Activity 345LaBarron K. Hill and Lori S. Hoggard
15 Neurobiology of Stress and Drug Use Vulnerability in Culturally Diverse Communities 369EzemenariM. Obasi, Kristin A.Wilborn, Lucia Cavanagh, Sandra Yan, and Ewune Ewane
Part V Cultural Neuroscience
16 An Introduction to Cultural Neuroscience 399Lynda C. Lin and Eva H. Telzer
17 Neurobiological Causes and Consequences of Cultural Differences in Social Cognition 421Meghan L. Meyer
18 Culture and Self–Other Overlap in Neural Circuits 443Michael E.W. Varnum and Ryan S. Hampton
19 Developmental Cultural Neuroscience: Progress and Prospect 465Yang Qu and Eva H. Telzer
Index 489