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    The native mind and the cultural construction of nature (2010)
    Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press
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    ISBN: 9780262267410 , 0262267411 , 9780262134897 , 0262134896 , 9781435631748 , 1435631749 , 9786612099373
    Language: English
    Pages: Online Ressource (viii, 333 pages) , illustrations.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library
    Series Statement: Life and mind
    DDC: 306.42
    Keywords: Cognition and culture ; Cognition et culture ; Cognition ; Biological Science Disciplines ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Ethnology ; Nature ; Cognition and culture ; Cognition et culture ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Surveys show that our growing concern over protecting the environment is accompanied by a diminishing sense of human contact with nature. Many people have little commonsense knowledge about nature - are unable, for example, to identify local plants and trees or describe how these plants and animals interact. Researchers report dwindling knowledge of nature even in smaller, nonindustrialized societies. In The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature, Scott Atran and Douglas Medin trace the cognitive consequences of this loss of knowledge. Drawing on nearly two decades of cross-cultural and developmental research, they examine the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it and how these two phenomena are affected by cultural differences. These studies, which involve a series of targeted comparisons among cultural groups living in the same environment and engaged in the same activities, reveal critical universal aspects of mind as well as equally critical cultural differences. Atran and Medin find that, despite a base of universal processes, the cultural differences in understandings of nature are associated with significant differences in environmental decision making as well as intergroup conflict and stereotyping stemming from these differences. The book includes two intensive case studies, one focusing on agro-forestry among Maya Indians and Spanish speakers in Mexico and Guatemala and the other on resource conflict between Native-American and European-American fishermen in Wisconsin. The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature offers new perspectives on general theories of human categorization, reasoning, decision making, and cognitive development
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-320) and index. - Description based on print version record , Description based on print version record , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Online-Ausg. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library , Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
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    Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers : [... First Barcelona Social Brain Conference, Entitled Values, Empathy, and Fairness Across Social Barriers: A Neurocognitive Approach to Fairness, ... held on November 21 - 22, 2008 at Fundació "La Caixa", Barcelona, Spain] (2009)
    Malden, Mass. : Blackwell
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    ISBN: 1573317608 , 9781573317603
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 241 S. , Ill., graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1167
    DDC: 302.14
    Keywords: Social values Congresses ; Empathy Congresses ; Fairness Congresses ; Neuropsychology Congresses ; Social Value ; Empathy ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Social Behavior ; Congresses ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Konferenzschrift 2008 ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Neurowissenschaften ; Sozialverhalten ; Wert ; Einfühlung ; Fairness ; Soziale Klasse ; Überschreitung
    Abstract: Foreword: Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers -- Lethal altruists: itineraries along the dark outskirts of moralistic prosociality -- The need for a cognitive neuroscience of naturalistic social cognition -- From dehumanization and objectification to rehumanization: neuroimaging studies on the building blocks of empathy -- When the self becomes other: toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination -- Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment -- The development of adolescent social cognition -- Genoeconomics: promises and caveats for a new field -- Experimental game theory and behavior genetics -- The neurochemistry of fairness: clarifying the link between serotonin and prosocial behavior -- Arginine vasopressin and oxytocin modulate human social behavior -- Empathy in early childhood: genetic, environmental, and affective contributions -- What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism? -- Sex differences in intergroup competition, aggression, and warfare: the male warrior hypothesis -- Precis of implicit nationalism -- Reason within passion: values as motivational anchors of Israeli opinion on the 2006 Lebanon war and ceasefire -- Sacred values: psychological and anthropological perspectives on fairness, fundamentalism, and terrorism -- Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism -- Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity -- On hotheads and Dirty Harries: the primacy of anger in altruistic punishment -- Neural correlates of social decision making and relationships: a developmental perspective -- Suicidality connected with mentalizing anomalies in schizophrenia: a study with stabilized outpatients -- Neurobiological substrates of social cognition impairment in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: gathering insights from seven structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies -- Agent-based computer simulations of language choice dynamics -- The use of supernatural entities in moral conversations as a cultural-psychological attractor -- Retraction
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword: Values, empathy, and fairness across social barriers -- Lethal altruists: itineraries along the dark outskirts of moralistic prosociality -- The need for a cognitive neuroscience of naturalistic social cognition -- From dehumanization and objectification to rehumanization: neuroimaging studies on the building blocks of empathy -- When the self becomes other: toward an integrative understanding of the processes distinguishing adaptive self-reflection from rumination -- Differential roles of fairness- and compassion-based motivations for cooperation, defection, and punishment -- The development of adolescent social cognition -- Genoeconomics: promises and caveats for a new field -- Experimental game theory and behavior genetics -- The neurochemistry of fairness: clarifying the link between serotonin and prosocial behavior -- Arginine vasopressin and oxytocin modulate human social behavior -- Empathy in early childhood: genetic, environmental, and affective contributions -- What motivates participation in violent political action: selective incentives or parochial altruism? -- Sex differences in intergroup competition, aggression, and warfare: the male warrior hypothesis -- Precis of implicit nationalism -- Reason within passion: values as motivational anchors of Israeli opinion on the 2006 Lebanon war and ceasefire -- Sacred values: psychological and anthropological perspectives on fairness, fundamentalism, and terrorism -- Neural basis of preference for human social hierarchy versus egalitarianism -- Empathy toward strangers triggers oxytocin release and subsequent generosity -- On hotheads and Dirty Harries: the primacy of anger in altruistic punishment -- Neural correlates of social decision making and relationships: a developmental perspective -- Suicidality connected with mentalizing anomalies in schizophrenia: a study with stabilized outpatients -- Neurobiological substrates of social cognition impairment in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: gathering insights from seven structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies -- Agent-based computer simulations of language choice dynamics -- The use of supernatural entities in moral conversations as a cultural-psychological attractor -- Retraction.
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