> The Cognitive Science Society is hosting a free 2005-2006 virtual
> colloquium series presented live over the Internet.
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> Topic: Culture, Expertise and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Matter
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> Speaker: Doug Medin, Northwestern University, http://
> www.psych.northwestern.edu/~medin/
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> Time: February 17, 2006, Friday, 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET
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> Session Description:
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> This talk describes an approach to culture and cognition where
> within group variability is treated as signal, not noise. This view
> is illustrated for the case of conflict over natural resources
> among Native-American and European-American hunters and fishermen
> in Wisconsin. I argue that an analysis in terms of different
> utilities or super-ordinate goals fails to illuminate the nature of
> the conflict. Instead our observations suggest that differences in
> conceptual organization and mental models of nature give rise to
> meaning differences that mediate misperceptions and stereotyping.
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> Session Presenter:
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> Doug Medin is Professor of Psychology, and Education and Social
> Policy at Northwestern University. His recent work has been along a
> number of related lines. With respect to culture and cognition, he
> and his collaborators have been doing research on biological
> concepts among three groups in Peten, Guatemala, and among Native
> American, Amish, and Majority culture people in northcentral
> Wisconsin. The scope of these projects is fairly broad, ranging
> from studies of basic level concepts and the use of categories in
> reasoning to environmental decision making and links between
> cultural differences in mental models of nature and culture-based
> models of learning in the science classroom. He also directs the
> Programs in Culture, Language, and Cognition (CLC) and Cognitive
> Studies of the Environment (CSE) at Northwestern.
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> This seminar is sponsored by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates and
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