Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 13, March 2026. SignificanceThe question of whether a psychological system is adaptive or maladaptive, and whether it is universal or culturally variable, depends on the researcher’s frame of reference, and different frames can yield radically different answers. Yet ...
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