Culture and Cognition

By Richard E. Nisbett, Ara Norenzayan. 2002

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Perceptions of organizational culture, leadership effectiveness and personal effectiveness across six countries (2007, background): “Organizational culture, viewed as shared behavioural norms, and built on individual interpretations of experience, may be seen as the result of these cognitive activities — an individual-level phenomenon (Fiske & Taylor, 1991) becoming an organizational-level phenomenon.”
The Rise of Neoliberalism and Institutional Analysis. (2001, background): “…and functionalism of the social sciences after the Second World War and rational choice theory more recently, and was heavily influenced by the social constructionist theories of phenomenology, symbolic interactionism, and cognitive psychology (DiMaggio 1997; DiMaggio and Powell 1991).”
Cultural preferences for formal versus intuitive reasoning (2002, unknown): “(for a review, see Nisbett, Peng, Choi, & Norenzayan, 2001; Nisbett & Norenzayan, 2002).”
Improving Cultural Analysis (2017, background): “In this sense, cultural sociologists can proclaim with confidence that their work stands “at the crossroads of the discipline” (Jacobs and Spillman 2005), helping to inform the research of scholars in virtually every substantive area of sociology (DiMaggio 1997; Patterson 2014; Sewell 2005).”
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “to yield an integrated account of how a form of “cultural cognition” explains differences of opinion on issues of fact more generally (DiMaggio, 1997; Douglas, 1999).”
Improving fluid intelligence with training on working memory: a meta-analysis (2014, unknown): “Such differences would not be surprising given the growing literature demonstrating culturally mediated effects on various aspects of cognitive functioning, including attention and learning (Ketay, Aron, & Hedden, 2009; Muggleton & Banissy, 2014; Nisbett & Norenzayan, 2002).”
Consumption symbols as carriers of culture: a study of Japanese and Spanish brand personality constructs. (2001, background): “However, the reverse relationship also exists; individuals influence culture (psycheaffects-culture ) by the creation of institutions, symbols, and practices that carry and validate particular cultural meaning systems (DiMaggio, 1997; Kitayama et al., 1997; Shore, 1996).”
Folk theories of “inquiry:” How preservice teachers reproduce the discourse and practices of an atheoretical scientific method (2004, background): “According to Holland and Quinn (1987), from a pragmatic standpoint, folk theories help people to: . . .make sense of actions, fathom the goals of others, set goals for action, plan for attainment of goals, direct actualization of these goals, and produce verbalizations that may play parts in all…”
The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization and the Plurality of Analogies (2013, background): “As such, schemas act as cognitive frameworks that simplify information processing (DiMaggio, 1997).”
How Cultural Values Shape Learning in Older Adulthood: The Case of Malaysia (2000, background): “We align ourselves with the notion of culture as defined by cognitive anthropologists; that is, culture is acquired knowledge, including beliefs, concepts, and standards, organized by cognitive structures that people use to function properly in a cultural context (Quinn & Holland, 1987).”
Multicultural minds. A dynamic constructivist approach to culture and cognition. (2000, background): “Several contemporary anthropologists (Shore, 1996; Sperber, 1996) and sociologists (DiMaggio, 1997) have staked out similar positions within their disciplines, challenging more general conceptions of cultural knowledge as foundational schemas or value orientations.”