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    Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude
    with Michael Burdett
    Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences 9 (1): 119. 2022.
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    Cross-Cultural Similarities and Differences in Person-Body Reasoning: Experimental Evidence From the United Kingdom and Brazilian Amazon
    with Emma Cohen, Nicola Knight, and Justin Barrett
    Cognitive Science 35 (7): 1282-1304. 2011.
    We report the results of a cross-cultural investigation of person-body reasoning in the United Kingdom and northern Brazilian Amazon (Marajó Island). The study provides evidence that directly bears upon divergent theoretical claims in cognitive psychology and anthropology, respectively, on the cognitive origins and cross-cultural incidence of mind-body dualism. In a novel reasoning task, we found that participants across the two sample populations parsed a wide range of capacities similarly in t…Read more
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    Osiurak and Reynaud argue that children are not a good methodological choice to examine cumulative technological culture. However, the paper ignores other current work that suggests that young children do display some aspects of creative problem-solving. We argue that using multiple methodologies and examining how technical-reasoning develops in children will provide crucial support for a cognitive approach to CTC.
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    A Diverse and Flexible Teaching Toolkit Facilitates the Human Capacity for Cumulative Culture
    with Lewis G. Dean and Samuel Ronfard
    Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (4): 807-818. 2018.
    Human culture is uniquely complex compared to other species. This complexity stems from the accumulation of culture over time through high- and low-fidelity transmission and innovation. One possible reason for why humans retain and create culture, is our ability to modulate teaching strategies in order to foster learning and innovation. We argue that teaching is more diverse, flexible, and complex in humans than in other species. This particular characteristic of human teaching rather than teach…Read more