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Ongoing Research Projects Norbert Ross Much of my research deals with issues of high-level cognition and more specifically the interaction between culture, social processes, and cognition. In order to describe cultural models I use statistical methods to aggregate (and prior to this justify the aggregation of) individual responses into group responses. The very same methods can also be used to estimate agreement between individuals within and across groups. The elicited models are approximations that can then be used to make predictions about related issues, thereby allowing us to actually test elaborated hypotheses. Local Manifestations of Institutional Agency: The Case of Evolution Education in Tennessee (with Mike Tidwell) Linguistic Relativity and Cultural Frameworktheories: Language and Spatial Cognition among Maya and Spanish speakers in the Highlands of Chiapas. Understanding Conceptual and Cultural Change: The Role of Expertise and Flexibility in Folkmedicine (2005-2008). Interdisciplinary research (Anthropology, Psychology and Computer Science) in Chiapas, Mexico as well as in the Nashville area. Co-PIs: Tom Palmeri & David Noelle. The Boundaries of Folkbiology: Tzotzil Maya children’s acquisition of folkbiology (2005 – 2006). Interdisciplinary research (Anthropology & Psychology) in Chiapas, Mexico. The Architecture of Race: Psychological and Social Components of Racialism. (2005-2006). Interdisciplinary research (Anthropology & Psychology) in Chiapas, Mexico. Models of the Rainforest: Folkecology, Cultural Change, and Resource Management among the Lacandon-Maya of Mexico Photos Lowland-Maya Folkecology and Environmental Decision-Making (with Scott Atran and Douglas Medin) Folkbiology in Northern Wisconsin (with Douglas Medin) Photos The Development of Folkbiological Thought: A cross-cultural study. (with Douglas Medin and Sandra Waxman) Ethics and Taxonomy: Hunters and Anti-hunters in the USA Culture and Cognition among Mexican Migrants in the US (Under Construction) (with Lic. C. Sánchez)