 Much of the evidence Shweder offered for this claim came from an extensive study of the normative judgments of orthodox Hindus in India and of Christians and Jews in the USA (Shweder, Mahapatra, &amp; Miller 1987). The Indian participants lived in a residential community surrounding an eleventh and twelfth century Hindu temple in the city of Bhubaneswar. The Americans were recruited from a middle class neighborhood near the University of Chicago. The study collected judgments about a wide range of normatively regulated practices including