Probing the Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition – A Research Program

Frontiers in Psychology

Andrea Bender¹ 

关键词: causal cognition;    culture;    language;    methods;    interdisciplinary approach;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00245

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

To what extent is the way people perceive, represent, and reason about causal relationships dependent on culture? While there have been sporadic attempts to explore this question, a systematic investigation is still lacking. Here, we propose that human causal cognition is not only superficially affected by cultural background, but that it is co-constituted by the cultural nature of the human species. To this end, we take stock of on-going research, with a particular focus on the methodological approaches taken: cross-species comparisons, archeological accounts, developmental studies, cross-cultural, and cross-linguistic experiments, as well as in-depth within-culture analyses of cognitive concepts, processes, and changes over time. We argue that only a combination of these approaches will allow us to integrate different components of cognition, levels of analysis, and points of view—the key requirements for a comprehensive, interdisciplinary research program to advance this field.

【 授权许可】

CC BY