%0 Conference Proceedings %A Bender, Andrea %A Beller, Sieghard %A Haun, Daniel B. M. %A Legare, Cristine %A Majid, Asifa %A Ojalehto, Bethany %A Medin, Douglas %+ Max Planck Research Group for Comparative Cognitive Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society Language and Cognition Department, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society Center for Language Studies , External Organizations %T Exploring cognitive diversity across disciplines and cultures : %G eng %U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0014-319B-E %U http://mindmodeling.org/cogsci2013/papers/0025/index.html %D 2013 %Z Review method: peer-reviewed %B CogSci 2013: the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society %Z date of event: 2013-07-31 - 2013-08-03 %C Berlin %X Since the cognitive revolution, a widely held assumption has been that—whereas content may vary across cultures—cognitive processes would be universal, especially those on the more basic levels. Even if scholars do not fully subscribe to this assumption, they often conceptualize, or tend to investigate, cognition as if it were universal (Henrich, Heine, & Norenzayan, 2010). The insight that universality must not be presupposed but scrutinized is now gaining ground, and cognitive diversity has become one of the hot (and controversial) topics in the field (Norenzayan & Heine, 2005). We argue that, for scrutinizing the cultural dimension of cognition, taking an anthropological perspective is invaluable, not only for the task itself, but for attenuating the home-field disadvantages that are inescapably linked to cross-cultural research (Medin, Bennis, & Chandler, 2010). %B Proceedings of the 35th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society %E Knauff, Markus; Pauen, Michael; Sebanz, Natalie; Wachsmuth, Ipke %P 67 - 68 %I Cognitive Science Society