Brungarians Use it Differently! Children’s Understanding of Artifact Function as a Cultural Convention

Children not only recognize the function of an artifact, but they actively protest when others use it in an atypical way. In two experiments, we asked whether children view artifact function as universal or as culturally dependent. In both experiments children watched videos of two actors who used c...

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Authors: Weatherhead, Drew (Author) ; Nancekivell, Shaylene (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2018
In: Journal of cognition and culture
Year: 2018, Volume: 18, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 89-103
Further subjects:B artifact function cross-cultural thinking cultural convention social cognition
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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