“abstraction in speech & thought
actions under self-control distinguished from those not under control
aesthetics
affection expressed and felt
age grades
age statuses
age terms
ambivalence
anthropomorphization
anticipation
antonyms
attachment
baby talk
belief in supernatural/religion
beliefs, false
beliefs about death
beliefs about disease
beliefs about fortune and misfortune
binary cognitive distinctions
biological mother and social mother normally the same person
black (color term)
body adornment
childbirth customs…”
Compiled by Donald E. Brown as published in The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker, 2002, New York: Viking Press, Brown, D.E. 1991.
Human universals. New York: McGraw-Hill
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