Measuring Groupishness: Trait of the Individual versus an Individual's...
Prev: Reflections on Defining “Groupishness” and Its Function in Human Society (part one of two) I believe there is a meaningful distinction to be made between cultural commitments and an individual’s...
View ArticleReflections on Defining “Groupishness” and its Function in Human Society...
It is my observation that for some people, “groupishness” (often vaguely conceived) is the moral sin that produces wars, Nazism, racism, homophobia and all manner of social/societal sins. Similarly,...
View ArticleDan Kahan asks: What influence do religiosity and science comprehension have...
I am going to argue that an interesting way to view this issue is to re-frame the question.Dan Kahan’s original post: MAPKIA! episode 1: religiosity, science comprehension & climate changeI don’t...
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It isn't fear: it's *what* you fear
So, a fun opening offered by Dan Kahan over at the Cultural Cognition Project blog (http://www.culturalcognition.net/blog/2013/6/28/decisive-strike-in-the-asymmetry-debate.html) for his readers to...
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Thinking about the CCR Egalitarians: Equalists v. Meritocrats
I’ve been thinking about the Egalitarian “half” of the Cultural Cognition of Risk Group-Grid schema.In my “vernacular” group-grid labeling system, I call the Egalitarians “Snobs.”SNOB V. JERKI have an...
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The Challenges of the Science = Truth Paradigm
David Berreby, in his useful book Us and Them, argues strenuously that science does not equal truth, that the scientific enterprise is a matter of ever-shifting approaches to solving problems, and that...
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Science is like an effective vaccine
Science is like an effective vaccine. It has been a helpful inoculant to the limitations of our individual human experience, boosting our collective immunity not to foreign invaders but inborn...
View ArticleWhat is Wrong with the Science of Communicating the Science of Science...
What is wrong with the science of communicating the science of science communication (i.e. Cultural Cognition of Risk theory) is a failure to apply the theory to its own endeavor.It seems to me that...
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Thinking with Dan
I’ve spent the last few months taking a couple of college classes and so, in the interest of meeting all of my responsibilities, had to set aside my intellectual pursuits around Cultural Cognition...
View Article"Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– Success in Circuit lies Too bright for...
“Tell all the Truth but tell it slant– Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth’s superb surprise” - Emily Dickinson
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TED's Spectacular Fail: Ideas Worth Suppressing
sebastianpenraeth:TEDTalks as a platform for “Ideas worth spreading” has become incredibly successful in recent years, now with over 800 thousand subscribers on YouTube and 1.5 million monthly visitors...
View ArticleContextualizing Human Origin Stories in Mixed-Culture Classrooms
Shared human origins stories are vital in the formation and maintenance of cultural cohorts. They provide a basis for members of these cultural cohorts to be in meaningful relationship to one another,...
View Article"To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the...
“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul. It is one of the hardest to define. A human being has roots by virtue of his real, active and natural...
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Parsing "Care" as a Moral Verb
It occurs to me that those of the statistical liberal moral/cultural viewpoint have one broad conception of what it means to “care” morally, while those of the statistical conservative moral/cultural...
View Article"The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view,...
“The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular. The essays in this book are meant...
View Article"Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult….Examine your words well, and you...
“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult….Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own...
View ArticleOn Statistical Liberal Sacred Commitments
I received an e-mail from someone trying to help me place my experiences as a traditionally-dressed Quaker visiting liberal groups into a more orthodox understanding of Haidt et al’s Moral Foundation...
View Article"Us and Them," Openness, Groupishness, Care, Harm and Loyalty
I have been troubled, deeply troubled, by the effort in the social sciences to explain the differences between statistical conservatives and statistical liberals as innate, genetic, essential and...
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