Search Results - "Medin, Douglas L"

cultural side of science communication by Medin, Douglas L., Bang, Megan

“…The main proposition of this paper is that science communication necessarily involves and includes cultural orientations. There is a substantial body of work…”
Get full text

Pressing questions in the study of psychological and behavioral diversity by Hruschka, Daniel J., Medin, Douglas L., Rogoff, Barbara, Henrich, Joseph

Get full text

Cultural Mosaics and Mental Models of Nature by Bang, Megan, Medin, Douglas L., Atran, Scott

“…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…”
Get full text

The Native Mind: Biological Categorization and Reasoning in Development and Across Cultures by Medin, Douglas L, Atran, Scott

“…This article describes cross-cultural and developmental research on folk biology: that is, the study of how people conceptualize living kinds. The combination…”
Get full text

Anthropocentrism is not the first step in children's reasoning about the natural world by Herrmann, Patricia, Waxman, Sandra R, Medin, Douglas L

“…What is the relation between human and nonhuman animals? As adults, we construe this relation flexibly, depending in part on the situation at hand. From a…”
Get full text

Construal levels and moral judgment: Some complications by Gong, Han, Medin, Douglas L.

“…Abstract Eyal, T., Liberman, N., & Trope, Y., (2008). Judging near and distant virtue and vice. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 , 1204–1209,…”
Get full text

The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling Within and Across Populations by Atran, Scott, Medin, Douglas L, Ross, Norbert O

“…This article describes cross-cultural research on the relation between how people conceptualize nature and how they act in it. Mental models of nature differ…”
Get full text

The Costs and Benefits of Calculation and Moral Rules by Bennis, Will M., Medin, Douglas L., Bartels, Daniel M.

“…There has been a recent upsurge of research on moral judgment and decision making. One important issue with this body of work concerns the relative advantages…”
Get full text

Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners: The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation by Sachdeva, Sonya, Iliev, Rumen, Medin, Douglas L.

“…The question of why people are motivated to act altruistically has been an important one for centuries, and across various disciplines. Drawing on previous…”
Get full text

Psychological Science as a Complex System: Report Card by Medin, Douglas L.

“…Psychological science is increasingly diverse in the tools available for research and the questions it is able to ask. But this potential is seriously limited…”
Get full text

When humans become animals: Development of the animal category in early childhood by Herrmann, Patricia A., Medin, Douglas L., Waxman, Sandra R.

“…► We investigate early conceptions of the place of humans in the biological world. ► Task systematically accesses categories of 3- and 5-year-olds. ► Confirms…”
Get full text

Should social scientists be distanced from or engaged with the people they study? by Nzinga, Kalonji, Rapp, David N., Leatherwood, Christopher, Easterday, Matthew, Rogers, Leoandra Onnie, Gallagher, Natalie, Medin, Douglas L.

“…This commentary focuses on two important contrasts in the behavioral sciences: (i) default versus nondefault study populations, where default samples have been…”
Get full text

Perspectives on Culture and Concepts by ojalehto, bethany l, Medin, Douglas L

“…The well-respected tradition of research on concepts uses cross-cultural comparisons to explore which aspects of conceptual behavior are universal versus…”
Get full text

Who's Asking?: Native Science, Western Science, and Science Education by Medin, Douglas L, Bang, Megan

“…The answers to scientific questions depend on who's asking, because the questions asked and the answers sought reflect the cultural values and orientations of…”
Get full text

Teleological reasoning about nature: intentional design or relational perspectives? by ojalehto, bethany, Waxman, Sandra R, Medin, Douglas L

“…According to the theory of ‘promiscuous teleology’, humans are naturally biased to (mistakenly) construe natural kinds as if they (like artifacts) were…”
Get full text

Conceptualizing agency: Folkpsychological and folkcommunicative perspectives on plants by ojalehto, bethany l., Medin, Douglas L., García, Salino G.

“…The present research addresses cultural variation in concepts of agency. Across two experiments, we investigate how Indigenous Ngöbe of Panama and US college…”
Get full text

Influence of deontological versus consequentialist orientations on act choices and framing effects: when principles are more important than consequences by Tanner, Carmen, Medin, Douglas L., Iliev, Rumen

“…A long tradition in decision making assumes that people usually take a consequentialist perspective, which implies a focus on the outcomes only when making…”
Get full text

Cognition Beyond the Human: Cognitive Psychology and the New Animism by ojalehto mays, bethanu, Seligman, Rebecca, Medin, Douglas L.

“…We present a new account of the cognitive commitments at stake in animist epistemologies. We use field‐based cognitive experiments to contribute to…”
Get full text

SUSTAIN: A Network Model of Category Learning by Love, Bradley C, Medin, Douglas L, Gureckis, Todd M

“…SUSTAIN (Supervised and Unsupervised STratified Adaptive Incremental Network) is a model of how humans learn categories from examples. SUSTAIN initially…”
Get full text

Grounding principles for inferring agency: Two cultural perspectives by ojalehto, bethany l., Medin, Douglas L., García, Salino G.

“…•Agency attribution to natural versus artifact non-animal kinds varies across cultures.•Converging evidence suggests culturally distinct principles for…”
Get full text