Spreading Non-natural Concepts: The Role of Intuitive Conceptual Structures in Memory and Transmission of Cultural Materials ¤
By Justin L. Barrett, Melanie A Nyhof. 2001
214 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Cultural Studies, Developmental and Educational Psychology
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/48d2253b5e1acdd7af5ca12d4f1ae7090a49fe64
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In Cultural Studies
- Hugo Mercier
- Mark Schaller
- Ara Norenzayan
- Scott Atran
- Nicolas Claidière
- Helena Miton
- Joseph Henrich
- Carol D. Lee
In Developmental and Educational Psychology
- Marjaana Lindeman
- Mark Schaller
- Ara Norenzayan
- Scott Atran
- Annika Svedholm
- Hugo Mercier
- Nicolas Claidière
- Helena Miton
Citations in the corpus
- Memory and Mystery: The Cultural Selection of Minimally Counterintuitive Narratives (2006, background): “In recent years, there has been growing empirical work on the cognitive factors that constrain the cultural success of beliefs, and this research yields a more complex perspective (Barrett & Keil, 1996; Barrett & Nyhof, 2001; Boyer, & Ramble, 2001).”
- What's in a Term? Paranormal, Superstitious, Magical and Supernatural Beliefs by Any Other Name Would Mean the Same (2012, background): “Other examples of supernatural concepts include a statue that listens to prayers, a cursing frog, and a thirsty door (Atran & Norenzayan, 2005a; Barrett & Nyhof, 2001; Boyer, 2001).”
- Universal cognitive mechanisms explain the cultural success of bloodletting (2015, methodology): “This technique was developed by Bartlett (1932) to study the distortion repeated transmissions introduced in narratives and other representations; it has been found to be useful in the study of psychological mechanisms involved in cultural transmission in humans (e.”
- Corpses, Maggots, Poodles and Rats: Emotional Selection Operating in Three Phases of Cultural Transmission of Urban Legends (2014, unknown): “…list of content biases includes a bias for stereotypeconsistent information (Bangerter, 2000; Kashima 2000), a bias for counter-intuitive concepts (Barrett and Nyhof, 2001), a bias for hierarchically organized information (Mesoudi and Whiten, 2004), and a bias for social information (Mesoudi,…”
- Religion's evolutionary landscape: Counterintuition, commitment, compassion, communion (2004, background): “Barrett and Nyhof (2001) asked people to remember and retell Native American folk tales containing natural as well as nonnatural events or objects.”