Christophe Heintz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 667348 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Christophe Heintz |
| NOMBRES | Christophe |
| APELLIDO | Heintz |
| FIRMA | HEINTZ C |
| AFILIACIONES | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1504-9096 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A cognitive resource-rational account of epistemic injustice
We advance a novel account of the cognitive foundations of epistemic injustice. We argue that such injustice arises from the efficient allocation of limited cognitive resources to mechanisms of comprehension and epistemic vigilance. Given their goals, individuals allocate cognitive resources optimally to interpreting what is said and assessing speaker credibility. This rational allocation often yields unjust outcomes, especially when motivations …
Is Mind‐Reading Involved in Ownership Judgments
How do people determine who owns what? While existing research has identified a number of psychological and behavioral sources of ownership judgments, the role of mental state attribution has received less attention. We conducted three online experiments ( N = 1246) examining if ownership judgments rely on mind‐reading: the capacity to infer others’ intentions, beliefs, and knowledge states. Using vignettes, we tested if ownership judgments are s…
Bargaining between the sexes
Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000527?via%3Dihub#s4210
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance
Can people efficiently navigate the modern communication environment, and if yes, how? We hypothesize that in addition to psychological capacities of epistemic vigilance, which evaluate the epistemic value of communicated information, some social institutions have evolved for the same function. Certain newspapers for instance, implement processes, distributed among several experts and tools, whose function is to curate information. We analyze how…
Perceiving commitments
Can commitments be generated without promises or gestures conventionally interpreted as such? We hypothesized that people believe that commitments are in place when one agent has led a recipient to rely on her to do something, even without a commissive speech act or any action conventionalized as such, and this is mutual knowledge. To probe this, we presented participants with online vignettes describing everyday situations in which a recipient's…
Animal Communication in Linguistic and Cognitive Perspective
Detailed comparative studies have revealed many surface similarities between linguistic communication and the communication of nonhumans. How should we interpret these discoveries in linguistic and cognitive perspective? We review the literature with a specific focus on analogy (similar features and function but not shared ancestry) and homology (shared ancestry). We conclude that combinatorial features of animal communication are analogous but n…
Commitment and communication
Are communicators perceived as committed to what they actually say (what is explicit), or to what they mean (including what is implicit)? Some research claims that explicit communication leads to a higher attribution of commitment and more accountability than implicit communication. Here we present theoretical arguments and experimental data to the contrary. We present three studies exploring whether the saying–meaning distinction affects commitm…
Methods for studying cultural attraction
Cultural attraction theory (CAT) describes a general evolutionary process, cultural attraction, by which the spread and stability of cultural items (beliefs, practices, artifacts, etc.) result not just from differential reproduction, but also from transformations that systematically favor the reconstruction of cultural items of specific types. In this way, CAT aims to provide a general framework for the study of cultural evolution. In a thoughtfu…
Cultural Attraction Theory
Cultural attraction theory, also referred to as cultural epidemiology, is an evolutionary theory of culture. It provides conceptual tools and a theoretical framework for explaining why and how ideas, practices, artifacts, and other cultural items spread and persist in a community and its habitat. It states that cultural phenomena result from psychological or ecological factors of attraction
Four misunderstandings about cultural attraction
Cultural attraction theory (CAT) is a research agenda the purpose of which is to develop causal explanations of cultural phenomena. CAT is also an evolutionary approach to culture, in the sense that it treats culture as a population of items of different types, with the frequency of tokens of those types changing over time. Now more than 20 years old, CAT has made many positive contributions, theoretical and empirical, to the naturalization of th…
The place of evolved cognition in scientific thinking
The question of the naturalness of science and religion is aptly specified by McCauley in the following terms: how do the thoughts or cognitive processes that are characteristic of a cultural domain (science and religion in McCauley’s book) relate to evolved cognition? Evolution endowed humans with specific cognitive abilities that increased the fitness of their bearers by solving problems they faced in their evolutionary environment. These evolv…
La sociologie cognitive
À l'âge où les sciences du cerveau et de la cognition apportent de fascinantes révélations sur les fondements matériels de la nature humaine, est-il possible pour la sociologie de continuer à réfléchir en vase clos, hors de l'effervescence scientifique qu'entraînent ces découvertes ? Les auteurs qui s'expriment dans cet ouvrage exposent leurs points de vue argumentés sur le lien entre sciences de la cognition et sciences du social et sur les cond…
Epistemic Vigilance
Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigilance. Here we outline this claim and consider some of the ways in which epistemic vigilance works in mental and social life by surveying issues, research and the…
Special issue on “experimental economics and the social embedding of economic behaviour and cognition”
Web search engines and distributed assessment systems
I analyse the impact of search engines on our cognitive and epistemic practices. For that purpose, I describe the processes of assessment of documents on the Web as relying on distributed cognition. Search engines together with Web users, are distributed assessment systems whose task is to enable efficient allocation of cognitive resources of those who use search engines. Specifying the cognitive function of search engines within these distribute…
Introduction
I argue that questions, methods and theories drawn from cognitive anthropology are particularly appropriate for the study of science. I also emphasize the role of cognitive anthropology of science for the integration of cognitive and social studies of science. Finally, I briefly introduce the papers and attempt to draw the main directions of research
On Sousa's Epidemiological Approach
My comments bear on Sousa's claim to provide an epidemiological analysis of a scienti c representation. I will argue that Sousa is particularly justi ed to call on Sperber's epidemiology of representation for the study of the history of science, but I will question the extent to which Sousa actually applies the epidemiology of representations to the fall of kinship studies in anthropology. An epidemiological study requires not only the acceptance…
Animal Communication in Linguistic and Cognitive Perspective
Detailed comparative studies have revealed many surface similarities between linguistic communication and the communication of nonhumans. How should we interpret these discoveries in linguistic and cognitive perspective? We review the literature with a specific focus on analogy (similar features and function but not shared ancestry) and homology (shared ancestry). We conclude that combinatorial features of animal communication are analogous but n…
Special issue on “experimental economics and the social embedding of economic behaviour and cognition”
Introduction
I argue that questions, methods and theories drawn from cognitive anthropology are particularly appropriate for the study of science. I also emphasize the role of cognitive anthropology of science for the integration of cognitive and social studies of science. Finally, I briefly introduce the papers and attempt to draw the main directions of research
On Sousa's Epidemiological Approach
My comments bear on Sousa's claim to provide an epidemiological analysis of a scienti c representation. I will argue that Sousa is particularly justi ed to call on Sperber's epidemiology of representation for the study of the history of science, but I will question the extent to which Sousa actually applies the epidemiology of representations to the fall of kinship studies in anthropology. An epidemiological study requires not only the acceptance…
Introduction
I argue that questions, methods and theories drawn from cognitive anthropology are particularly appropriate for the study of science. I also emphasize the role of cognitive anthropology of science for the integration of cognitive and social studies of science. Finally, I briefly introduce the papers and attempt to draw the main directions of research
Web search engines and distributed assessment systems
I analyse the impact of search engines on our cognitive and epistemic practices. For that purpose, I describe the processes of assessment of documents on the Web as relying on distributed cognition. Search engines together with Web users, are distributed assessment systems whose task is to enable efficient allocation of cognitive resources of those who use search engines. Specifying the cognitive function of search engines within these distribute…
Epistemic Vigilance
Humans massively depend on communication with others, but this leaves them open to the risk of being accidentally or intentionally misinformed. To ensure that, despite this risk, communication remains advantageous, humans have, we claim, a suite of cognitive mechanisms for epistemic vigilance. Here we outline this claim and consider some of the ways in which epistemic vigilance works in mental and social life by surveying issues, research and the…
Special issue on “experimental economics and the social embedding of economic behaviour and cognition”
La sociologie cognitive
À l'âge où les sciences du cerveau et de la cognition apportent de fascinantes révélations sur les fondements matériels de la nature humaine, est-il possible pour la sociologie de continuer à réfléchir en vase clos, hors de l'effervescence scientifique qu'entraînent ces découvertes ? Les auteurs qui s'expriment dans cet ouvrage exposent leurs points de vue argumentés sur le lien entre sciences de la cognition et sciences du social et sur les cond…
The place of evolved cognition in scientific thinking
The question of the naturalness of science and religion is aptly specified by McCauley in the following terms: how do the thoughts or cognitive processes that are characteristic of a cultural domain (science and religion in McCauley’s book) relate to evolved cognition? Evolution endowed humans with specific cognitive abilities that increased the fitness of their bearers by solving problems they faced in their evolutionary environment. These evolv…
Cultural Attraction Theory
Cultural attraction theory, also referred to as cultural epidemiology, is an evolutionary theory of culture. It provides conceptual tools and a theoretical framework for explaining why and how ideas, practices, artifacts, and other cultural items spread and persist in a community and its habitat. It states that cultural phenomena result from psychological or ecological factors of attraction
Four misunderstandings about cultural attraction
Cultural attraction theory (CAT) is a research agenda the purpose of which is to develop causal explanations of cultural phenomena. CAT is also an evolutionary approach to culture, in the sense that it treats culture as a population of items of different types, with the frequency of tokens of those types changing over time. Now more than 20 years old, CAT has made many positive contributions, theoretical and empirical, to the naturalization of th…
Methods for studying cultural attraction
Cultural attraction theory (CAT) describes a general evolutionary process, cultural attraction, by which the spread and stability of cultural items (beliefs, practices, artifacts, etc.) result not just from differential reproduction, but also from transformations that systematically favor the reconstruction of cultural items of specific types. In this way, CAT aims to provide a general framework for the study of cultural evolution. In a thoughtfu…
Commitment and communication
Are communicators perceived as committed to what they actually say (what is explicit), or to what they mean (including what is implicit)? Some research claims that explicit communication leads to a higher attribution of commitment and more accountability than implicit communication. Here we present theoretical arguments and experimental data to the contrary. We present three studies exploring whether the saying–meaning distinction affects commitm…
Institutions of Epistemic Vigilance
Can people efficiently navigate the modern communication environment, and if yes, how? We hypothesize that in addition to psychological capacities of epistemic vigilance, which evaluate the epistemic value of communicated information, some social institutions have evolved for the same function. Certain newspapers for instance, implement processes, distributed among several experts and tools, whose function is to curate information. We analyze how…
Perceiving commitments
Can commitments be generated without promises or gestures conventionally interpreted as such? We hypothesized that people believe that commitments are in place when one agent has led a recipient to rely on her to do something, even without a commissive speech act or any action conventionalized as such, and this is mutual knowledge. To probe this, we presented participants with online vignettes describing everyday situations in which a recipient's…
Animal Communication in Linguistic and Cognitive Perspective
Detailed comparative studies have revealed many surface similarities between linguistic communication and the communication of nonhumans. How should we interpret these discoveries in linguistic and cognitive perspective? We review the literature with a specific focus on analogy (similar features and function but not shared ancestry) and homology (shared ancestry). We conclude that combinatorial features of animal communication are analogous but n…
Bargaining between the sexes
Supplementary data are available online at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1090513824000527?via%3Dihub#s4210
A cognitive resource-rational account of epistemic injustice
We advance a novel account of the cognitive foundations of epistemic injustice. We argue that such injustice arises from the efficient allocation of limited cognitive resources to mechanisms of comprehension and epistemic vigilance. Given their goals, individuals allocate cognitive resources optimally to interpreting what is said and assessing speaker credibility. This rational allocation often yields unjust outcomes, especially when motivations …
Is Mind‐Reading Involved in Ownership Judgments
How do people determine who owns what? While existing research has identified a number of psychological and behavioral sources of ownership judgments, the role of mental state attribution has received less attention. We conducted three online experiments ( N = 1246) examining if ownership judgments rely on mind‐reading: the capacity to infer others’ intentions, beliefs, and knowledge states. Using vignettes, we tested if ownership judgments are s…
Psychology (14 obras) · Epistemology (11 obras) · Sociology (10 obras) · Cognition (9 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Cognitive science (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Language and cultural evolution (5 obras)