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The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling within and across Populations
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Direct linkAtran, Scott; Medin, Douglas L.; Ross, Norbert O. – Psychological Review, 2005
This article describes cross-cultural research on the relation between how people conceptualize nature and how they act in it. Mental models of nature differ dramatically among populations living in the same area and engaged in similar activities. This has novel implications for environmental decision making and management, including commons…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Predictor Variables, Research Methodology, Cross Cultural Studies
