ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Research in Small-Scale Societies: Studying Emotions and Facial Expressions in the Field.
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- Introduction to Special Issue: Diverse Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Adolescent Religious and Spiritual Development.Adolescent research review · 2021Article
- Elements of Neuroanthropology.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Emotional Expressions Reconsidered: Challenges to Inferring Emotion From Human Facial Movements.Psychological science in the public interest : a journal of the American Psychological Society · 2019Review
- Universality Reconsidered: Diversity in Making Meaning of Facial Expressions.Current directions in psychological science · 2018Article
- Movement Notation Revisited: Syntax of the Common Morphokinetic Alphabet (CMA) System.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although cognitive science was multidisciplinary from the start, an under-emphasis on anthropology has left the field with limited research in small scale, indigenous societies. Neglecting the anthropological perspective is risky, given that once-canonical cognitive science findings have often been shown to be artifacts of enculturation rather than cognitive universals. This imbalance has become more problematic as the increased use of Western theory-driven approaches, many of which assume human uniformity ("universality"), confronts the absence of a robust descriptive base that might provide clarifying or even contrary evidence. We highlight the need for remedies to such shortcomings by suggesting a two-fold methodological shift. First, studies conducted in indigenous societies can benefit by relying on multidisciplinary research groups to diminish ethnocentrism and enhance the quality of the data. Second, studies devised for Western societies can readily be adapted to the changing settings encountered in the field. Here, we provide examples, drawn from the areas of emotion and facial expressions, to illustrate potential solutions to recurrent problems in enhancing the quality of data collection, hypothesis testing, and the interpretation of results.
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