Uskul, Ayse K., Nisbett, Richard E., Kitayama, Shinobu (2008) Ecoculture, social interdependence and holistic cognition: Evidence from farming, fishing and herding communities in Turkey. Communicative & Integrative Biology, 1 (1). pp. 40-41. ISSN 1942-0889. (KAR id:32398)
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Abstract
It has been hypothesized that interdependent (versus independent) social orientations breed more holistic (versus analytic) cognitions. If so, farming and small-scale fishing, which require more cooperation (and represent a more interdependent mode of being) than does herding, may encourage a more holistic mode of cognition. To test this hypothesis we compared responses to tasks measuring categorization, reasoning and attention by members of herding, fishing and farming communities in the eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. The samples did not differ from each other in important demographic variables such as nationality, ethnicity, language and religion, as well as age and education. As hypothesized, in all three tasks, results indicated a greater degree of holistic mode of cognition exhibited by the members of fishing and farming communities than members of herding communities. The findings support the notion that level of special interdependence fostered by ecocultural settings is likely to shape the ways in which individuals perceive and attend to their surrounding world.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | social interdependence, farming, fishing, herding, Black Sea, Turkey, holistic cognition |
Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
Depositing User: | Ayse Uskul |
Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2012 17:00 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:10 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/32398 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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