Political and cultural polarisation are leading explanations for climate change denial inactions as seen in the Cultural Cognition Thesis (CCT). In this view, individuals hold positions on contested issues to conform their ideological groups: people ascribe certain beliefs, not express what they know but show group identity. We present a conceptual test of CCT using high-quality cross-national ...

We discuss the impact of cultural differences on usability evaluations that are based on the thinking-aloud method (TA). The term ‘cultural differences’ helps distinguish differences in the perception and thinking of Westerners (people from Western Europe and US citizens with European origins) and Easterners (people from China and the countries heavily influenced by its culture). We illustrate ...

Language is coordination. Pursuing this, the present Special Issue of Pragmatics & Cognition challenges two widely held positions. First, the papers reject the claim that language is essentially ‘symbolic’. Second, they deny that minds (or brains) represent verbal patterns. Rather, language is social, individual, and contributes the feeling of thinking. Simply, it is distributed. Elucidating th...

Gavriel Salomon | 275 pages | Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations | Cambridge University Press, 1997 | 1997 | 0521574234, 9780521574235 | Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cogn...

One way cognitive anthropologists discover how cognition is socially shared is through examining how the product of cognition, knowledge, comes to have a patterned social distribution. The strategy is to study the process by examining its consequences. The process of socially shared cognition comprises the collective struggles of individuals to learn, interpret, and understand their world. In b...

Objective: Depression and Anxiety literature in Iran is short of cultural/indigenous studies, especially with regard to Azeri ethnic group. This study was carried out in order to identify depression and anxiety aspects in Azeri ethnic group. Methods: In a cross sectional qualitative design, 32 Azeri informants (14 patients, 13 lay people, and 5 professionals) recruited in the study using pur...

Numerous studies have identified links among culture, user preferences, and Web site usability. Most of these studies were reports of findings from a behavioral perspective in explaining how cultural factors affect processes of Web-related content design and use. Based on the research of Vygotsky and Nisbett, the authors propose a broader model, referred to as ‘‘cultural cognition theory,’’ by ...

Metaphor is viewed in a broad sense in this paper, which is no longer a mere rhetorical device but a mode of thinking. This violation against the traditional concept of metaphor will definitely result in great changes in both the cognition and translation of metaphor. Firstly, this paper aims at casting off the conventional idea of metaphor and widening the cognition scope of it. Secondly, this...