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11Advancing Global Health Equity: The Role of the Liberal Arts in Health Professional EducationJournal of Medical Humanities 1-8. forthcoming.Much innovation has taken place in the development of medical schools and licensure exam processes across the African continent. Still, little attention has been paid to education that enables the multidisciplinary, critical thinking needed to understand and help shape the larger social systems in which health care is delivered. Although more than half of medical schools in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States offer at least one medical humanities course, this is less common in Afri…Read more
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52The needs of the many do not outweigh the needs of the few: The limits of individual sacrifice across diverse culturesJournal of Cognition and Culture 18 (1-2): 205-223. 2018.A long tradition of research in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) countries has investigated how people weigh individual welfare versus group welfare in their moral judgments. Relatively less research has investigated the generalizability of results across non-WEIRD populations. In the current study, we ask participants across nine diverse cultures (Bali, Costa Rica, France, Guatemala, Japan, Madagascar, Mongolia, Serbia, and the USA) to make a series of moral judgments…Read more
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793Clean people, unclean people: the essentialisation of 'slaves' among the southern Betsileo of MadagascarSocial Anthropology 23 (2): 152-168. 2015.In this article I argue that among the southern Betsileo slave descendants are essentialised by free descendants. After explaining how this striking case of psychological essentialism manifests in the local context, I provide experimental evidence for it and discuss the results of three cognitive tasks that I ran in the field. I then suggest that slaves were not essentialised in the pre-colonial era and contend that the essentialist construal only became entrenched in the aftermath of the 1896 a…Read more
Denis Regnier
Université de La Polynésie Française
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Université de La Polynésie FrançaiseLecturer