Frontiers in Psychology | |
Probing the Cultural Constitution of Causal Cognition â A Research Program | |
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
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