User:Manicjedi/Index of human universals
- abstraction in speech and 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 about death
- beliefs about disease
- beliefs about fortune and misfortune
- beliefs, false
- binary Cognitive_architecture
- Mother#Biological_mother and Mother#Social_role normally the same person
- black (color term)
- body adornment
- Childbirth#Society_and_culture
- childcare
- Fear-potentiated_startle
- Childhood_phobia#Fear_of_strangers
- childhood fears
- choice making (choosing alternatives)
- Categorization
- Kinship
- Age_groups
- temperment
- Human_anatomy
- olorimetry
- Category:Animals
- Category:Plants
- Inner_World
- Sexual_dimorphism#Humans
- Spatial_analysis
- Category:Tools
- Glossary_of_meteorology
- coalitions
- collective identities
- Conflict_(process)
- Consultation
- |Conflict_resolution
- Mediation
- Inductive_reasoning - A conjecture is when a person makes a statement or proposition that seems likely to be true. A conclusion is like a judgment or decision reached by reasoning. A justification is like the action made by someone of showing something to be right or reasonable.
- containers
- continua (ordering as cognitive pattern)
- cooking
- cooperation
- cooperative labor
- copulation normally conducted in privacy
- Perpetual_succession
- Wiktionary:coyness display
- critical learning periods
- crying
- cultural variability
- culture
- culture/nature distinction
- customary greetings
- daily routines
- dance
- death rituals
- decision making
- decision making, collective
- differential valuation
- directions, giving of
- discrepancies between speech, thought, and action
- dispersed groups
- distinguishing right and wrong
- diurnality
- divination
- division of labor
- division of labor by age
- division of labor by sex
- dominance/submission
- dream interpretation
- dreams
- economic inequalities
- economic inequalities, consciousness of
- emotions
- empathy
- entification (treating patterns and relations as things)
- environment, adjustments to
- envy
- envy, symbolic means of coping with
- ethnocentrism
- etiquette
- explanation
- face (word for)
- facial communication
- facial expression of anger
- facial expression of contempt
- facial expression of disgust
- facial expression of fear
- facial expression of happiness
- facial expression of sadness
- facial expression of surprise
- facial expressions, making/modifying of
- fairness (equality), concept of
- family (or household)
- father and mother, separate kin terms for
- fear of death
- fears
- fears, ability to overcome
- feasting
- females do more direct childcare
- figurative speech
- fire
- folklore
- food preferences
- food sharing
- future, attempts to predict
- generosity admired
- gestures
- gift giving
- good and bad distinguished
- gossip
- government
- grammar
- group living
- groups that are not based on family
- habituation
- hairstyles
- hand (word for)
- healing the sick (or attempting to)
- hope
- hospitality
- husband older than wife on average
- hygienic care
- identity, collective
- imagery
- incest between mother and son unthinkable or tabooed
- incest, prevention or avoidance
- in-group, biases in favor of
- in-group distinguished from out-group(s)
- inheritance rules
- institutions (organized co-activities)
- insulting
- intention
- intention
- interest in bioforms (living things or thing that resemble them)
- interpolation (insertion of something of a different nature into something else)
- interpreting behavior
- intertwining (e.g., weaving)
- jokes
- judging others
- kin, close distinguished from distant
- kin groups
- kinship statuses
- kin terms translatable by basic relations of procreation
- language
- language employed to manipulate others
- language employed to misinform or mislead
- language is translatable
- language not a simple reflection of reality
- language, prestige from proficient use of
- law (rights and obligations)
- law (rules of membership)
- leaders
- lever
- likes and dislikes
- linguistic redundancy
- logical notion of “and”
- logical notion of “equivalent”
- logical notion of “general/particular”
- logical notion of “not”
- logical notion of “opposite”
- logical notion of “part/whole”
- logical notion of “same”
- logical notions
- magic
- magic to increase life
- magic to sustain life
- magic to win love
- making comparisons
- male and female adult and child seen as having different natures
- males dominate public/political realm
- males engage in more coalitional violence
- males more aggressive
- males more prone to lethal violence
- males more prone to theft
- males, on average, travel greater distances over lifetime
- manipulate social relations
- marking at phonemic, syntactic, and lexical levels
- marriage
- materialism
- meal times
- meaning, most unis of are non-universal
- measuring
- medicine
- melody
- memory
- mentalese
- mental maps
- metaphor
- metonym (word, name, or expression used as a substitute for something else with which it is closely associated)
- mood or consciousness altering techniques and/or substances
- moral sentiments
- moral sentiments, limited effective range of
- morphemes (units of a language that cannot be further divided)
- mother normally has consort during child-rearing years
- mourning
- murder proscribed
- music
- musical redundancy
- musical repetition
- musical variation
- music, children’s
- music, related in part to dance
- music, related in part to religious activity
- music seen as art (a creation)
- music, vocal
- music, vocal, includes speech forms
- myths
- narrative
- nomenclature (perhaps the same as classification)
- nonbodily decorative art
- normal distinguished from abnormal states
- nouns
- numerals (counting)
- Oedipus complex
- oligarchy (de facto)
- one (numeral)
- onomatopoeia
- overstimating objectivity of thought
- pain
- past/present/future
- personal names
- person, concept of
- phonemes
- phonemes defined by sets of minimally contrasting features
- phonemes, merging of
- phonemes, range from 10 to 70 in number
- phonemic change, inevitability of
- phonemic change, rules of
- phonemic system
- planning
- planning for future
- play
- play to perfect skills
- poetic lines characterized by repetition and variation
- poetic lines demarcated by pauses
- poetic line, uniform length range
- poetry/rhetoric
- polysemy (one words has several related meanings)
- possessive, intimate
- possessive, loose
- practice to improve skills
- precedence, concept of (that’s how the leopard got its spots)
- preference for own children and close kin (nepotism)
- prestige inequalities
- pretend play
- pride
- private inner life
- promise
- pronouns
- pronouns, minimum three persons
- pronouns, minimum two numbers
- proper names
- property
- proverbs, sayings
- proverbs, sayings (in mutually contradictory forms)
- psychological defense mechanisms
- rape
- rape proscribed
- reciprocal exchanges (or labor, goods, or services)
- reciprocity, negative (revenge, retaliation)
- reciprocity, positive
- recognition of individual by face
- redress of wrongs
- resistance to abuse of power, to domination
- rhythm
- right-handedness as population norm
- risk taking
- rites of passage
- rituals
- role and personality seen in dynamic interrelationship (i.e., departures from role can be explained in terms of individual personality)
- sanctions
- sanctions for crimes against the collectivity
- sanctions include removal from the social unit (exile)
- self as neither wholly passive nor wholly autonomous
- self as subject and object
- self-control
- self distinguished from others
- self-image, awareness of (concern for what others think)
- self-image, manipulation of
- self-image, wanted to be positive
- self is responsible
- semantic category of affecting things and people
- semantic category of dimension
- semantic category of giving
- semantic category of location
- semantic category of motion
- semantic category of of other physical properties
- semantic category of speed
- semantic components
- semantic components, generation
- semantic components, sex
- semantics
- sememes (smallest unit of meaning), commonly used ones are short, infrequently used ones are longer
- senses unified
- sex differences in spatial cognition and behavior
- sex (gender) terminology is fundamentally binary
- sex statuses
- sexual attraction
- sexual attractiveness
- sexuality as focus of interest
- sexual jealousy
- sexual modesty
- sexual regulation
- sexual regulation includes incest prevention
- shame
- shelter
- sickness and death seen as related
- snakes, wariness around
- socialization
- socialization expected from senior kin\
- socialization includes toilet training
- social structure
- spear
- special speech for special occasions
- statues, ascribed and achieved
- statuses and roles
- statuses distinguished from individuals
- statuses on other than sex, age, or kinship
- stinginess, disapproval of
- stop/nonstop contrasts (in speech sounds)
- succession
- sucking wounds
- sweets preferred
- symbolic speech
- symbolism
- synesthetic metaphors
- synonyms
- tabooed foods
- tabooed utterances
- taboos
- taxonomy
- territoriality
- thumb sucking
- tickling
- time
- time, cyclicity of
- tool dependency
- tool making
- tools
- tools for cutting
- tools for pounding
- tools patterned culturally
- tools, permanent
- tools to make tools
- toys, playing
- trade
- triangular awareness (assessing relationships among the self and two other people)
- true and false distinguished
- turn-taking
- two (numeral)
- tying material (i.e., something like string)
- units of time
- verbs
- violence, some forms of proscribed
- visiting
- vocal/nonvocal contrasts in phonemes
- vowel contrasts
- weaning
- weapons
- weather control (attempts to)
- white (color term)
- world view