Asifa Majid
@asifa_majid
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Investigating language, culture & cognition at @UniofOxford @OxExpPsy @StHughsCollege Find me on https://t.co/lwxB5Wy5Bq
Oxford, UK
Joined November 2012
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science: it has led to premature claims of universality (due to over-sampling of English speakers) and limited the cognitive constructs being examined (due to the use of English as a meta-language).
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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science launches Thematic Collections. #OECS is a free, open access resource for learning about the mind. Looking for great material to teach or just to dig into yourself? Start here. Ping us if you have ideas for more! .
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Blazing-fast image creation – using just your voice. Try Grok Imagine.
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RT @kensycoop: How are humans able to make sense of time? . Not with special biology but with “time tools”—ideas, practices, and artifacts….
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RT @ev_fedorenko: Thank you @mcxfrank and @asifa_majid for making the OECS happen, and @marina_bedny for section editing! Here is an articl….
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RT @ColebRob: We show that English grammar causes speakers to value future outcome higher than Dutch speakers. This suggests languages af….
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Previous studies have found cross-cultural correlations between linguistic obligations for talking about future events and economic decisions like saving money. The hypothesis is that a grammatical...
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Also highly recommend Shamanism by @mnvrsngh. It's so good I almost missed a train connection yesterday I was so engrossed!
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From a brilliant, young, Harvard-trained anthropologist and contributor to The New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism, from its beginnings to the...
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Steve Levinson's new book well worth a read. The Interaction Engine delves into social interaction across cultures, and explores the implications of it for everything from autism to the dynamics of populism. #OpenAccess
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Cambridge Core - Semantics and Pragmatics - The Interaction Engine
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Language and economic behaviour: Future tense use causes less not more temporal discounting. New paper, led by @ColebRob @aucksAdventures and Robin Dunbar
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Previous studies have found cross-cultural correlations between linguistic obligations for talking about future events and economic decisions like saving money. The hypothesis is that a grammatical...
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RT @AlexF_languages: HéLiCéO, the new project I am leading on Pacific languages, is hiring a postdoc researcher to document & describe a no….
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HéLiCéO — Héritages Linguistiques, Cultures orales, Éducation en Océanie
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RT @OxfordMedSci: NEWS: Professor Asifa Majid Named 2024 AAAS Fellow. Congratulations to Prof Majid, recognised for outstanding contributio….
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Professor Majid recognised for contributions to the understanding of language, culture, and cognition in the 2024 AAAS honours list
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RT @aaas: Congratulations to the new 2024 AAAS Fellows class! They are a distinguished cadre recognized for their achievements across disci….
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RT @leher_singh: A very enjoyable collaboration on bridging inclusivity and open science. Grateful to Sakshi Ghai for her leadership.
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There are twin threats to psychology: the well-known HARKing (Hypothesising After the Results are Known) and the newly coined MASKing (Making Assumptions based on Skewed Knowledge). New paper led by @SakSGhai in @CommsPsychol
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Communications Psychology - Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable...
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RT @CommsPsychol: Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, & evaluation of research to coun….
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Communications Psychology - Psychology must embrace more responsible practices in design, reporting, generalisation, and evaluation of research to counteract the spectre of Questionable...
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RT @xphilosopher: There’s a lot of discourse about smell on here these days, so I thought I’d draw attention to @asifa_majid’s wonderful wo….
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Great piece by @mnvrsngh!.
More people speak English today than any other language in human history. But what do we lose, psychologically and culturally, as a result? For this week’s @NewYorker, I explore how English shapes thought—from our conception of time to how we talk about the senses.
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RT @mnvrsngh: More people speak English today than any other language in human history. But what do we lose, psychologically and culturally….
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RT @ColinPhillips2: More opportunities to join us in Oxford! We have an open-rank position in Phonetics, to coincide with our move into the….
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RT @kobin: .@JudithHoller and I have written an entry on 'Conversation' for the new Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science edited by @mcxfr….
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RT @AdamCSchembri: Chapter on sign languages by the deaf linguist Carol Padden in the new Open Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science, edited b….
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RT @ryan_nefdt: So happy to be a part of this great academic initiative (beating the bot: @oecs_bot) and on the massively important topic o….
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