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Douglas L Medin

  • 13002 Citations
1965 …2020

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Research Interests

Culture and Nature: At the broadest level we are interested in how conceptions of nature and our relationships with nature affect how we act on it. Is nature most present when humans are absent or are humans part of nature? This research is a collaboration involving my colleague, Megan Bang, and often involves both Native and non-Native children and adults in the Seattle, Washington area and the Chicago Indian community. We are studying the role of culture as it relates to knowledge and reasoning about the natural world. Most recently we have been focusing on ecological cognition and complex systems thinking, including work with Sonya Sachdeva from US forestry on perceptions of ecosystems, including urban ecosystems. Obviously we also care about environmental decision making.

Our lab team’s interests are broader than the above description. Janene Cielto researches how African American women’s hair texture affects social interactions. Natalie Gallagher is interested in social network cognition and how forms of identity may affect it. Alissa Baker-Oglesbee works as part of the culture and STEM research team but also on heritage language preservation and Native identity.

Education/Academic qualification

Psychology, PhD, University of South Dakota

… → 1968

Psychology, MA, University of South Dakota

… → 1966

Psychology, BA, Moorhead State College, Moorhead, MN

… → 1965

Research interests

  • Children's learning
  • Cognition and models
  • Cognitive science
  • Conceptual learning
  • Culture and learning
  • Diversity
  • Epistemologies and learning
  • Native American learning

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Grants

An investigation of the impact of culture and experience on reasoning about complex ecological phenomena among students from diverse backgrounds

Medin, D. L.

National Science Foundation

9/1/17 → 8/31/21

Project: Research project

    • Multidisciplinary Program in Educational Sciences

    Adam, E. K., Chase-Lansdale, L., Coburn, C. E., Cook, T. D., Destin, M. P., Easterday, M. W., Figlio, D. N., Gerber, E. M., Guryan, J. E., Hedges, L. V., Horn, M. S., Ispa-Landa, S., Jackson, C. K., Lam, W. S. E., Lee, C. D., Medin, D. L., Rapp, D. N., Rosenbaum, J. E., Schanzenbach, D. W., Sherin, B. L., Smilowitz, K. R., Spencer, B. D., Spillane, J. P. & Uttal, D. H.

    Institute of Education Sciences

    9/1/14 → 8/31/20

    Project: Research project

    • Participant Support Costs for WORKSHOP: Enhancing robustness and generalizability in the social and behavioral sciences

    Medin, D. L.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/16 → 8/31/18

    Project: Research project

    • WORKSHOP: Enhancing robustness and generalizability in the social and behavioral sciences

    Medin, D. L.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/16 → 8/31/18

    Project: Research project

    • Off-campus Portion of WORKSHOP: Enhancing robustness and generalizability in the social and behavioral sciences

    Medin, D. L.

    National Science Foundation

    9/1/16 → 8/31/18

    Project: Research project

    • Research Output

    Cognition Beyond the Human: Cognitive Psychology and the New Animism

    Ojalehto mays, B., Seligman, R. & Medin, D. L., Mar 1 2020, In : Ethos. 48, 1, p. 50-73 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • Tracing culture in children’s thinking: a socioecological framework in understanding nature (Rastreando la cultura en el pensamiento infantil: una socioecología para comprender la naturaleza)

    Taverna, A. S., Medin, D. L. & Waxman, S. R., Apr 2 2020, In : Infancia y Aprendizaje. 43, 2, p. 247-270 24 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    Open Access

    • Wayfinding as a concept for understanding success among Native Americans in STEM: “ learning how to map through life”

    Page-Reeves, J., Marin, A., Moffett, M., DeerInWater, K. & Medin, D., Mar 15 2019, In : Cultural Studies of Science Education. 14, 1, p. 177-197 21 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 3 Scopus citations

    If Indigenous peoples stand with the sciences, will scientists stand with us?

    Bang, M., Marin, A. & Medin, D., Mar 1 2018, In : Daedalus. 147, 2, p. 148-159 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

    • 5 Scopus citations

    Pressing questions in the study of psychological and behavioral diversity

    Hruschka, D. J., Medin, D. L., Rogoff, B. & Henrich, J., Nov 6 2018, In : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 115, 45, p. 11366-11368 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

    8 Scopus citations