Understanding Socio Cultural Impacts on Cognition
Download the Learning Helper below and use the articles linked below to facilitate your understanding of the ways in which culture can affect our cognition:
Sociocultural_Effects_on_Cognition
University of Michigan research on the perceptual differences of Americans and Japanese:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/health/080800hth-behavior-culture.html
Research on how language can affect cognition:
http://boingboing.net/2011/08/12/how-language-affects-color-perception.html
Research on how Language affects cognition, but in a contextual sense..great comparison to Nesbitt studies:
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/26/4/518
Laymen’s Explanation (abstract above):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world-10212854.html
Thinking in a foreign Language helps economic decision making!!
http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/04/25/thinking-foreign-language-helps-economic-decision-making
Cross Cultural Analysis of Happiness!! YAY!