Cognition In and Out of the Mind

Giovanni Bennardo is a Board of Trustees Professor and Distinguished Research Professor in the department of Anthropology and the Cognitive Science Initiative at Northern Illinois University, USA. His research interests focus on linguistic, psychological, and anthropological perspectives to cognitive science. With six book publications to his credit, he also edited two special issues for World Cultures and Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science.Victor de Munck is a Professor of Anthropology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. His current research focuses on changes in love, marriage, and family cultural models as they affect decisions to marry and have children. He is also interested in the effect of technology on these important modes of intimacy as they have been central to the reproduction and maintenance of the species and the idea of a meaningful life. This project has received funding from the Research Council of Lithuania, Grant S-MIP-21-47 awarded to Victor C. de Munck (P-MIP-21-258).Stephen Chrisomalis is a Professor of Anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit, USA. His previous books include Numerical Notation: A Comparative History (Cambridge, 2010), Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger (Toronto, 2013), and Reckonings: Numerals, Cognition, and History (MIT, 2020). He is President of the Society of Anthropological Sciences, a section of the American Anthropological Association.

• 1. Introduction. Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. De Munck, and Stephen Chrisomalis.- Part 1 - Cultural Model Theory.- 2. Cultural Models Theory: The Mental Life of Culture - Giovanni Bennardo.- 3. Affordances, Culture, and the Self: Constituting a New Cognitive-Behavioral Paradigm - Victor de Munck.- 4. Cultural Models: A Constructed Reality - Dwight Read.- Part 2.   Defining Cultural Models.- 5. What is (and is not) a Cultural Model - Claudia Strauss.- 6. Cultural Models are Intrinsically Normative - Renatas Berniunas.- 7. Thinking while Doing: Active Cognition in Bartending - John Gatewood.- Part 3. Cultural Consensus Theory.- 8. Validating Cultural Models with Cultural Consensus Theory - Susan C. Weller, Jeff Johnson, and William Dressler.- 9. Measuring Shared Collective Knowledge and Belief Systems - Kateryna Maltseva.- 10. Cultural Consonance: Extending Cultural Consensus Theory - William Dressler.- Part4. Cultural Models: Evolution, History, and Development.- 11. Culture as Cognitive Technology: An Evolutionary Perspective - Steven C. Levinson.- 12. Products, not Prerequisites: The Becoming of Cultural Models - Miriam Haidle.- 13. Relying on Grandma’s Mushrooms: How Cultural Models Affect Appraisals of Edibility - Andrea Bender and Åge Oterhals.- 14. Learning Moral Norms: “Cultural Models” in Children’s Eyes - Jing Xu.- Part 5. Cultural Models and Language.- 15. The Linguistic Encoding and Verification of Cultural Models - Stephen Chrisomalis.- 16. Cultural Concepts of Person and Social Relationships in Tongan Language and Cultural Practices - Svenia Völkel.-  17. Conclusion - Victor C. de Munck.