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RESOURCES AND LINKS
Societies, Journals and Mailing Lists
Recommended Books
- Michael Cole. (1996). Cultural Psychology: A once and future discipline. Harvard University Press.
- Hirschfeld, Lawrence A., & Gelman, Susan A. (Eds.) (1994). Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture. Cambridge University Press.
An edited volume that serves as a strong introduction to how regularities of conceptual structures undergird knowledge acquisition across domains and thereby constrain culture. Chapters or the whole text may be used to introduce important issues in conceptual development and the interplay between cognitive biases and environmental inputs. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
- Bradd Shore. (1996). Culture in Mind: Cognition, culture, and the problem of meaning. Oxford and NY: Oxford University Press.
- Sperber, Dan. (1996). Explaining Culture: A Naturalistic Approach. Blackwell Publishers.
A collection of essays exploring how regularities of the human mind constrain the communication or transmission of ideas, and thus begin to account for why cultural knowledge is the way it is. Chapters or the whole text may be used to introduce fundamental ideas in culture and cognition. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
- Tomasello, Michael. (1999). The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Harvard University Press.
This authored text clearly and convincingly develops both the biological and cultural heritage of the human mind using comparative, evolutionary, and developmental evidence. Appropriate for undergraduates, graduates, and faculty.
Syllabi from Classes Taught Elsewhere
See the program section for syllabi from classes taught here.
Similar and Related Programs
- Institut Nicod - An interdisciplinary lab at the interface between the humanities, the social sciences, and the cognitive sciences.
- The London School of Economics and Political Science
- Program in Culture, Language, and Cognition at Northwestern University - A cross-school initiative intended to support new research on topics that reveal the links between language, cultural processes, and higher cognitive processes.
- Center for Evolutionary Psychology at UC Santa Barbara - Its goals "to promote the discovery and systematic mapping of the adaptations that comprise the evolved species-typical architecture of the human mind and brain" and "to explore how cultural and social phenomena can be explained as the output of such newly discovered or newly mapped psychological adaptations."
- The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - "The institute's aim is to investigate the history of humankind with the help of comparative analyses of different genes, cultures, cognitive abilities, languages and social systems of past and present human populations as well as those of primates closely related to human beings."
- The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics - "The Institute's research topic is psycholinguistics, i.e. the study of mental processes involved in language production, language comprehension and language acquisition, as well as the relation between language, thought, and culture ('cognitive anthropology')."
- CogWeb at UCLA - "CogWeb is a research tool for exploring the relevance of the study of human cognition to communication and the arts."
- Foundation for Psycho-cultural Research at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development - "Our goal is to shed light on the nature of a developing human being whose brain makes it 'natural' to acquire, use, and create culture."
- Culture and Human Development - University of Saskatchewan - Graduate program in experimental psychology, with exposure to sociology and anthropology as well.
To update or add information, please send email to Elizabeth Bartmess. Last updated Jun 21, 2004.
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