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Cultural mosaics and mental models of nature
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For much of their history, the relationship between anthropology and psychology has been well captured by Robert Frost's poem, "Mending Wall," which ends with the ironic line, "good fences make good neighbors." The congenial fence was that anthropology studied what people think and psychology studied how people think. Recent research, however, shows that content and process cannot be neatly segregated, because cultural differences in what people think affect how people think. To achieve a deeper understanding of the relation between process and content, research must integrate the methodological insights from both anthropology and psychology. We review previous research and describe new studies in the domain of folk biology which examine the cognitive consequences of different conceptualizations of nature and the place of humans within it. The focus is on cultural differences in framework theories (epistemological orientations) among Native Americans (Menominee) and European American children and adults living in close proximity in rural Wisconsin. Our results show that epistemological orientations affect memory organization, ecological reasoning, and the perceived role of humans in nature. This research also demonstrates that cultural differences in framework theories have implications for understanding intergroup conflict over natural resources and are relevant to efforts to improve science learning, especially among Native American children.
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“Language holds, in its grammar, di ff erent logics (epistemological orientations) through which the language holders are constrained to think (Bang et al., 2007).”
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“In addition, researchers have found that some groups (e.g., Menominee Native Americans) are more likely to view humans as a part of nature and feel psychologically closer to nature compared to other groups (e.g., European Americans), even at relatively early stages in development (e.g., Bang et al., 2007; Unsworth et al., 2012).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bang, M., Medin, D. L., & Atran, S.
- Affiliations
- *TERC, Cambridge, MA 02140;
- Northwestern University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique-CREA, 1 Rue Descartes, 75005 Paris, France;
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2007-08-28
- Volume
- 104
- Issue
- 35
- Pages
- 13868-13874
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC1955807
- OpenAlex
- W2064857412
- Cited by
- 353
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD41653, R01HD041653)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Categorization, perception, and language
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Cultural Differences and Values
- Keywords
- folk biology, framework theory, epistemological orientations, cultural cognition, cultural differences in cognition, Menominee, Native American children, memory organization, human role in nature, science learning
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Animals, Child, Cognition, Culture, Fishes, Humans, Learning, Memory, Models, Psychological
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