Name
Abstract | ||
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Do cultural models facilitate particular ways of perceiving interactions in nature? We explore variability in folkecological principles of reasoning about interspecies interactions (specifically, competitive or cooperative). In two studies, Indigenous Panamanian Ngobe and U.S. participants interpreted an illustrated, wordless nonfiction book about the hunting relationship between a coyote and badger. Across both studies, the majority of Ngobe interpreted the hunting relationship as cooperative and the majority of U.S. participants as competitive. Study 2 showed that this pattern may reflect different beliefs about, and perhaps different awareness of, plausible interspecies interactions. Further probes suggest that these models of ecological interaction correlate with recognition of social agency (e.g., communication, morality) in nonhuman animals. We interpret our results in terms of cultural models of nature and nonhuman agency. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1111/tops.12156 | TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
Folkecology,Folkpsychology,Nonhuman agency concepts,Culture,Indigenous ecological knowledge | Social psychology,Ecology,Morality,Indigenous,Interpersonal relationship,Cooperative behavior,Psychology,Agency (sociology),Cultural models | Journal |
Volume | Issue | ISSN |
7.0 | 4.0 | 1756-8757 |
Citations | PageRank | References |
1 | 0.36 | 2 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bethany L. Ojalehto | 1 | 3 | 1.25 |
| Douglas L. Medin | 2 | 89 | 28.20 |
| William S. Horton | 3 | 3 | 1.90 |
| Salino G. Garcia | 4 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Estefano G. Kays | 5 | 1 | 0.36 |