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Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving. It is a fascinating area of research for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers.
This book explores the variability of metacognitive skills across cultures, since a person's decision to allocate effort, motivation to learn, sense of being right or wrong in perceptions, memories, and other cognitive tasks depends on specific transmitted goals, norms, and values. Across nineteen chapters, a group of leading authors analyze the variable and universal features associated with these dimensions, drawing on cutting-edge evidence.
Additionally, new domains of metacognitive variability are considered in this volume, including those generated by metacognition-oriented embodied practices (present in rituals and religious worship), and culture-specific lay theories about subjective uncertainty and knowledge regarding natural or supernatural entities. It also documents universal metacognitive features, such as children's earlier sensitivity to their own ignorance than to that of others, people's intuitive understanding of what counts as knowledge, and speakers' sensitivity to informational sources (independently of the way the information is linguistically expressed).
The book is important reading for students and scholars in cognitive and cultural psychology, anthopology, developmental and social psychology, linguistics, and philosophy.
Contents
1: Joëlle Proust and Martin Fortier: Metacognitive diversity across culture: An introduction
I. Introducing metacognition
2: Norbert Schwarz: Of fluency, beauty, and truth: Inferences from metacognitive experiences
3: Rolf Reber and Ara Norenzayan: Shared fluency theory of social cohesiveness: How the metacognitive feeling of processing fluency contributes to group processes
4: Bahador Bahrami: Making the most of individual differences in joint decisions
II. How does metacognition develop: Cross-cultural studies
5: Paul Harris: Revisiting privileged access
6: Sunae Kim, Ameneh Shahaeian, and Joëlle Proust: Developmental diversity in mindreading and metacognition
7: Athanasios Chasiotis: The developmental role of experience-based metacognition for cultural diversity in executive function, motivation and mindreading
III. Metacognition in communication
8: Anna Papafragou and Ercenur Ünal: The relation between language and mental state reasoning
9: Janis Nuckolls and Tod Swanson: Respectable uncertainty and pathetic truth in Amazonian Quichua speaking culture
10: Olivier Le Guen: Managing epistemicity among the Yucatec Mayas (Mexico)
IV. Metacognitive regulation and self-concept
11: Veronica X. Yan and Daphna Oyserman: The world as we see it: The culture-identity-metacognition interface
12: Ulrich Kühnen and Marieke van Egmond: Learning: A cultural construct
13: Giovanni Bennardo: Cultural models in Tongan metacognition
V. Metacognition within religious practices
14: Tanya Luhrmann: Prayer as a metacognitive activity
15: Uffe Schjødt and Jeppe Jensen: Depletion and deprivation: Social functional pathways to a shared metacognition
16: Martin Fortier: Sense of reality, metacognition and culture in schizophrenic and drug-induced hallucinations: An interdisciplinary approach
VI. Do epistemic norms vary across cultures?
17: Stephen Stich: Knowledge, intuition and culture
18: Jonathan Mair: Metacognitive variety, from Inner Mongolian Buddhism to post-truth
19: Cristine Legare and Andrew Shtulman: Explanatory pluralism across cultures and development
