Doctoral Dissertation Research in DRMS: Who's at stake? Nonhuman agency concepts and cultural resource conflict among Indigenous and Western actors in Panama

DRMS 中的博士论文研究：谁处于危险之中？

• 批准号: 1427035
• 负责人: Douglas Medin
• 金额: $ 2.57万
• 依托单位: Northwestern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1427035&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; DRMS; Who

This research engages a fundamental question for cognitive science and decision making: what is at stake in cultural resource conflict over human-environment interactions? One of the most fundamental concepts under debate involves what-or-who is at stake in environmental dilemmas. Understanding people's environmental behavior requires understanding how they relate to other life forms as intentional agents worthy of moral consideration. This interdisciplinary research investigates how concepts of nonhuman agency interrelate with environmental cognition and decision making across two communities living in a shared ecosystem: Indigenous Ngöbe and mainstream (Ladino, Euro-American) actors in Bocas del Toro, Panama (also including selected comparisons to standard U.S. samples). Studies employ cognitive and psychological methods to target key predictions concerning cultural variation in nonhuman agency concepts, and associated reasoning about moral circles and ecological causation. It is predicted that cultural differences in cognition will lead individuals to approach environmental decision making in very different ways: either as an ecological question that positions humans as users and protectors of the environment, or as a social question that positions both humans and nonhumans as intentional stakeholders in shared community.This dissertation research will advance cognitive theory by offering a novel analysis of the conceptual frameworks involved in reasoning about nature across cultures, providing insight into the moral and causal dimensions of ecological thought. A distinct advantage of this work is its focus on under-represented perspectives of indigenous communities, contributing to the diversity of social science study populations and offering a unique vantage point on environmental questions. By documenting how cultural concepts and values impact perceptions of environmental tradeoffs, this research sheds light on cultural resource conflict (and cooperation) between indigenous and mainstream groups. More broadly, the results will deepen knowledge about the cultural and cognitive factors underlying environmental decision making, speaking to core issues in the decision science of human-environment interactions.

这项研究参与了认知科学和决策的一个基本问题：文化资源冲突在人类环境相互作用上遇到了什么风险？辩论中最基本的概念之一是在环境困境中受到什么影响。了解人们的环境行为需要理解它们与其他生命形式的关系，这是值得道德考虑的有意代理。这项跨学科研究调查了非人类代理商的概念如何与居住在共享生态系统中的两个社区的环境认知和决策相互关联：土著Ngöbe和Mainstream和Mainstream（Ladino，Ladino，Ladino，Ladino，Ladino，euro-Americanal）参与者在Bocas del Toro，Panama，Panama（包括与标准美国标准样本的选定比较）。研究员工的认知和心理方法，以针对非人类代理概念中文化差异的关键预测以及有关道德回路和生态原因的相关推理。据预测，认知的文化差异将导致个人以截然不同的方式进行环境决策：作为一个生态问题，将人类定位为环境的用户和保护者，或者作为一个社会问题，将人类和非人类定位为有意的相关者作为共享社区中的有意利益者，这将通过提供概念性分析来促进构想的自然范围，以推动构想的构想，并涉及构想的构成范围，并涉及构成的构想，并涉及构成的自然分析，并将其涉及培养物，并涉及培养物的自然范围。生态思想的因果关系。这项工作的一个独特优势是它专注于土著社区代表性不足的观点，促进了社会科学研究人群的多样性，并为环境问题提供了独特的有利位置。通过记录文化概念和价值观如何影响对环境权衡的看法，这项研究阐明了土著和主流群体之间的文化资源冲突（和合作）。更广泛地说，结果将加深对环境决策的文化和认知因素的了解，并在人类环境相互作用的决策科学中对核心问题进行交流。