Chapter 16
Links and Demos
Links: Programs
Culture and Cognition
- a description of the program at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
International Culture and Cognition Program
- at the University of Michigan.
Links: Articles and References
Culture and Cognition
- Sociologist Paul DiMaggio discusses the roles of cognitive psycholgy and sociology in understanding cultural influences on cognition.
Research Knowledge and Policy Issues in Cultural Diversity and Education
- Richard Tharpe comments on the role of culture in personalizing education.
Kimberley Jameson
and
Edwin Hutchins
- Both are at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Jameson's work examines the role of culture on color naming. Dr. Hutchins is currently working on a book on cognition and culture called Cognition in the Wild.
Memory & Culture
- Are our autobiographical memories of childhood influenced by culture?
Culture and Cognition
- from a sociologist's point of view!
Demos
Individual Differences and Cross-cultural Cognition
- a walk through of the questions raised about cultural differences in dialectical versus analytical reasoning in the U.S. and China. Based on Peng, K. & Nisbett, R.E. (1999). Culture, dialectics, and reasoning about contradiction,
American Psychologist, 54,
741 -754.
The Noh mask effect
- an interesting visual illusion from Japan.
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