University of Tennessee at Knoxville psychologist Lowell Gaertner and his colleagues argued that examining surface differences among cultures (the phenotype) does little to advance understanding of universal human behavior or genotype.
Notes on verification
Directly corroborated by the original APA Monitor article and the peer-reviewed source commentary (Gaertner, Sedikides, Cai, & Brown, 2010, Behavioral and Brain Sciences), with affiliation independently verified via university and academic profiles. [tier=gold indep_score=0.95 clusters=3 claim_tier=notable | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Are your findings 'WEIRD'? - American Psychological Association (seed:psychology_and_neuroscience)
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/44671881_It's_not_WEIRD_it's_WRONG_When_Researchers_Overlook_uNderlying_Genotypes_they_will_not_detect_universal_processes (corroboration)
- https://www.southampton.ac.uk/~crsi/gaertner_sedikides_cai_brown_2010.pdf (corroboration)
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain-sciences/article/abs/its-not-weird-its-wrong-when-researchers-overlook-underlying-genotypes-they-will-not-detect-universal-processes/FF5CFE65B9B6856036E4B06460FA540D (corroboration)