Sentences with phrase «describe cultural cognition»

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The term «cognition» is also used in a wider sense to mean the act of knowing or knowledge, and may be interpreted in a social or cultural sense to describe the emergent development of knowledge and concepts within a group that culminate in both thought and action.

From the paper:... Funding for research described in this paper was supplied by the Annenberg Public Policy Center in connection with the Annenberg / Cultural Cognition Project «Cognitive Adaptation Research Initiative,» and by the Skoll Global Threats Fund, in connection with the «Southeast Florida Evidence - based Science Communication Imitative.»

The talk (particularly toward the end) describes a «two channel communication strategy» as a device for counteracting the distorting effect of cultural cognition.

What we know about cultural cognition tells us much about how the formation of opinion in these issues is far more complicated than the simple mechanism you describe.