Journal of Cognition and Culture

ISSNs: 1567-7095, 1568-5373

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    Did Teddy Bears Culturally Evolve to Be Cuter? A Preregistered Replication.Quentin Borredon, Zeynep Bulamac, Camélia Crozat, Emmanuel Dayre, Estelle Fuchs, Marie Hallo, Lou Kerzreho, Pauline Lavagne D’Ortigue, Theodore Lellouche, Hossein Samani, Sammy Penel, Nina Ryszefld, Tavleen Sandhu, Aure Timsit, Janne Yrjö-Koskinen, Olivier Morin & Edgar Dubourg - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):114-127.
    This pre-registered replication study explores the impact of perceived cuteness on the evolution of cultural artifacts, testing whether neotenic traits – eye size, forehead height, and head roundness – have increased in teddy bears over time. In previous research, Hinde & Barden (1980) found an increase in teddy bear neoteny while Gould (1985) found that Mickey Mouse’s features became more neotenic with time. However, both studies lacked statistical power (15 teddy bears and 3 Mickey Mouse drawings). We collected data from (...)
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    ‘The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds’, written by Viorica Marian.Ashley Chung-Fat-Yim & Sirada Rochanavibhata - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):247-253.
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  3. Emotional Processing and Acculturation.Ana Cruz, Catarina Rosa & Pedro Bem-Haja - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):209-235.
    This work intended to analyse how Chinese people who have different degrees of exposure to Portuguese language make affective assessments of the emotional dimensions of audio stimuli in both Mandarin Chinese and European Portuguese. A sample of 23 native Chinese speakers with different levels of proficiency in Portuguese evaluated the affective valence and physiological arousal of a set of 10 negative, 10 positive, and 10 neutral words, presented in three different versions: a) in Portuguese spoken by a native speaker; b) (...)
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    Markets, Religion, Community Size and the Evolution of Fairness? Not Really.Angarika Deb - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):199-207.
    An influential account of human fairness has suggested that norms of equity and fairness evolved as community sizes grew, markets and institutions stabilised and world religions came about. The account rests on the assumptions that humans predominantly interacted with kin in the evolutionary past, lived in genetically related groups and did not have formal norms of cooperation. In this article I present anthropological evidence to the contrary. Contemporary hunter-gatherer societies from around the globe live in nomadic camps with fluid membership (...)
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    Testing the Relative Influence of Three Key Factors in Mind-Based Models of Religion: Template Categories, Utility, and Threat.Shannon Fleming, Paul Robertson, Daniel Turek & Ömer Dağlar Tanrikulu - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):159-181.
    The traditional Cognitive Science of Religion (CSR) mind-based model suggests that humans understand the world through ontological categories and make socially strategic inferences to avoid threats and focus on utility. This study used an image choice task to test three key factors – category templates, threat, and utility – believed to influence people’s preferences within the CSR framework. The study had three main goals: (1) to refine previous CSR research by providing a more accurate, empirically scaled measure of these three (...)
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    Inka Numbers, Khipu, and Yupana: a Reanalysis.Cinzia Florio & Karenleigh A. Overmann - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):128-158.
    We review the history of decipherment on the technologies used for numbers by the Inkas – khipus and yupanas. We offer a novel interpretation of the portable “checkerboard” yupana drawn in 1615, revealing a numerical algorithm. This analysis sheds new light on the Inka number system, questioning its inclusion of a concept of zero and its interpretation as a positional system. We conclude that Inka numbers and computational methods were likely non-positional, analogous to Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman numbers. We (...)
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    Can Social Cognitive Theory Reduce Gender Inequality in Digitization among Women in Agricultural Activities in Tanzania?Yuslida John - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):42-63.
    This research examines the role of social cognitive theory in reducing gender inequality in the introduction of digitization among agriculturists’ women in Tanzania. This follows the low pace of digitalization adoption among women in the agriculture sector in Tanzania. The study experience from women farmers in two villages such as Membe and Chinangali in the Chamwino district in the Dodoma region with structural equation modeling indicates that social cognitive theory in terms of self-efficacy, observed learning, and observed behavior can influence (...)
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    The Neurology of Culture.Gregory J. Lobo - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):64-75.
    The lack of anatomical evolution contrasted with an evident behavioral change in humans during their natural history, from about 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, constitutes something of a puzzle. What explains the behavioral change, a change which is commonly understood as cultural? Against the surprisingly widespread but tautological response that the change was driven by culture – which amounts to the unsatisfying argument that culture drives culture, all the way down, or back – this paper presents a theory developed by (...)
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    Impact of Perfectionism, Cognitive Style and Emotional Schema on Popular Psychology: a Regression Analysis.Arezou Omrani-Shishavan, Mahdi Zeynali-Tazehkandi & Hasan Aminpoor - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):21-41.
    The research aim is to predict popular psychology based on perfectionism, cognitive style, and emotional schema. The population of the study included men, and women aged 20 to 60 living in the city. According to Krejcie & Morgan’s table, 383 people were selected using a non-proportional stratified random sampling method. To collect data, a popular psychology questionnaire, Hill’s perfectionism questionnaire, Leahy’s emotional schema questionnaire, and Witkin’s cognitive style test were employed. The results showed that there was a significant and positive (...)
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    “Overcoming the Slumps in Performance”: Metacognition, Grit and Self-Efficacy in Sports among Athletes.Kashish Pandey & K. Khusboo - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):1-20.
    Predictably, millions of dollars get invested in sport science by the federation for impeccable performance of an athlete. However, there is a gap which exist to understand the nature of cognitive-motion nexus in sports with regard to performance. Hence, this systematic review synthesized evidence on the influence of metacognition, grit and self-efficacy on performance in sport domain using PRISMA guidelines. A search of Web of Science, PubMed, Google Scholar, PsycINFO and Scopus databases reaped 26 eligible studies. Findings were classified into (...)
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    Causal Reasoning about Illnesses and Remedies by Puerto Rican Parents Living in the United States.Evelyn Pineda, Graciela Trujillo Hernandez, Seung Heon Yoo & Karl S. Rosengren - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):94-113.
    This study examined how Puerto Rican parents living in the United States reason about illnesses and remedies. Special focus is placed on the influence of Puerto Rican cultural, religious, and spiritual beliefs due to the influence of Taino, West African, Spanish, and U.S. beliefs and customs. Parents of 3.5 to 12-year-old children from the Rochester, NY area were asked to complete a questionnaire centered on their beliefs and an open-ended interview that explored how one could get sick and treated for (...)
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    Situating Religious Beliefs.Erik Ringmar - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):182-198.
    Recent scholarship in cognitive theory emphasizes the situatedness of cognitive processes, which occur not only in minds but in bodies engaging with their environments. This article relies on these insights to rethink the concept of religious beliefs. It argues that to believe in something is more fundamental than to believe that something is the case. Religious beliefs are primarily expressions of trust rather than propositional statements. To believe in God is to trust in God, reflecting cognitive processes rooted in embodied (...)
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    American-English Ethnoanatomy: Novices and Experts.Michael C. Robbins & Robert M. Robbins - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):236-245.
    This interdisciplinary study of novice, American–English speakers found two major discrepancies between their conceptualizations of external human anatomy, and the expert opinion of the scientific and medical community. In contrast to the experts, (1) more than 90% of the novices exhibit polysemy when identifying human limbs and (2) about 50% exhibit partonomic disagreement, about whether ‘thumbs’ are ‘fingers’, and ears are ‘parts of’ the face. Both verbal and visual test modalities were adopted in (2). No significant differences were found by (...)
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  14. From an Object to a Tool: On Possible Transformations of Analysis of the Border Problem.Andrzej Zaporowski - 2025 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 25 (1-2):76-93.
    The article addresses the border as an object and yet a tool found in the cultural realm, where the object is approached in three stages. Firstly, the border problem is given the form of an assembled representation, and which becomes an object of one’s reflection. Secondly, this object turns into an obstacle as one faces both the abstract and the concrete references of the representation in question. Thirdly, this obstacle requires some steps to cope with it by one; one becomes (...)
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