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Determinants of cognitive variability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2010

Sangeet S. Khemlani ,
N. Y. Louis Lee  and
Monica Bucciarelli
Sangeet S. Khemlani
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540. khemlani@princeton.eduhttp://www.princeton.edu/~khemlani
N. Y. Louis Lee
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong SAR of China. louis@cuhk.edu.hkhttp://www.fed.cuhk.edu.hk/eps/people/leel.html
Monica Bucciarelli
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Po, 14–10123, Torino, Italy. monica@psych.unito.ithttp://www.psych.unito.it/csc/pers/bucciarelli/bucciarelli.html
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Abstract

Henrich et al. address how culture leads to cognitive variability and recommend that researchers be critical about the samples they investigate. However, there are other sources of variability, such as individual strategies in reasoning and the content and context on which processes operate. Because strategy and content drive variability, those factors are of primary interest, while culture is merely incidental.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 33 , Issue 2-3 , June 2010 , pp. 97 - 98
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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