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90
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44715
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938
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - William James Fellow Award, Association for Psychological Science (APA)
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2005 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2005 - APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology, American Psychological Association
  • 2004 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1982 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Douglas L. Medin is affiliated with Northwestern University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and social sciences, with noted contributions in multiple subfields including social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their recent publications demonstrate a broad interest in cognitive and cultural psychology, child development, and socioecological frameworks. Some of the recent papers include:

  • "Cognition Beyond the Human: Cognitive Psychology and the New Animism" (2020), Ethos
  • "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)" (2020), Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje
  • "Hands on: Nonverbal communication in Native and non-Native American parent-child dyads during informal learning." (2021), Developmental Psychology
  • "Look to the field" (2022), Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • "Trolley problems in context - ERRATUM" (2023), Judgment and Decision Making

Their frequent co-authors include Sandra R. Waxman, Megan Bang, Rumen Iliev, bethany ojalehto mays, and Rebecca Seligman. The venues that have regularly published their work include Ethos, Journal for the Study of Education and Development Infancia y Aprendizaje, Developmental Psychology, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, and Judgment and Decision Making.

The main topics addressed in their work include cultural differences and values, child and animal learning development, categorization, perception, and language, early childhood education and development, geography and education methods, animal and plant science education, and media influence and health.

Throughout their career, they have been recognized with multiple awards and honors. These include the William James Fellow Award from the Association for Psychological Science in 2013, fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science awarded in 1982 and 2008, fellowship of the American Educational Research Association in 2008, membership in the National Academy of Sciences in 2005, the APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology in 2005, fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2004, fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2002, and fellowship of the American Psychological Association in 1981.

Best Publications

  • Categories and concepts

    Edward E. Smith;Douglas L. Medin

  • Context theory of classification learning.

    Douglas L. Medin;Marguerite M. Schaffer

  • The role of theories in conceptual coherence.

    Gregory L. Murphy;Douglas L. Medin;Douglas L. Medin

  • Concepts and conceptual structure.

    Douglas L. Medin

  • Respects for similarity

    Douglas L. Medin;Robert L. Goldstone;Dedre Gentner

  • Sinning Saints and Saintly Sinners The Paradox of Moral Self-Regulation

    Sonya Sachdeva;Rumen Iliev;Douglas L. Medin

  • Concepts and Concept Formation

    Douglas L. Medin;Edward E. Smith

  • SUSTAIN: A Network Model of Category Learning.

    Bradley C. Love;Douglas L. Medin;Todd M. Gureckis

  • Cultural processes in science education: Supporting the navigation of multiple epistemologies

    Megan Bang;Douglas L Medin

  • The role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Charles W. Kalish;Douglas L. Medin;Susan A. Gelman

  • The native mind: biological categorization and reasoning in development and across cultures.

    Douglas L. Medin;Scott Atran

  • Context and structure in conceptual combination.

    Douglas L Medin;Edward J Shoben

  • The native mind and the cultural construction of nature.

    Scott Atran;Douglas L. Medin

  • Family resemblance, conceptual cohesiveness, and category construction.

    Douglas L Medin;William D Wattenmaker;Sarah E Hampson

  • Categorization and Reasoning among Tree Experts: Do All Roads Lead to Rome?☆

    Douglas L. Medin;Elizabeth B. Lynch;John D. Coley;Scott Atran

  • Relational similarity and the nonindependence of features in similarity judgments.

    Robert L Goldstone;Douglas L Medin;Dedre Gentner

  • Desettling Expectations in Science Education

    Megan Bang;Beth Warren;Ann S. Rosebery;Douglas Medin

  • The cultural mind: environmental decision making and cultural modeling within and across populations.

    Scott Atran;Douglas L. Medin;Norbert O. Ross

  • The tree of life: Universal and cultural features of folkbiological taxonomies and inductions

    Alejandro López;Scott Atran;John D. Coley;Douglas L. Medin

  • Sacred bounds on rational resolution of violent political conflict

    Jeremy Ginges;Scott Atran;Scott Atran;Douglas Medin;Khalil Shikaki

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott Atran
Scott Atran University of Oxford
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Edward E. Smith
Edward E. Smith Columbia University
John D. Coley
John D. Coley Northeastern University
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Michael Cole
Michael Cole University of East London
Lance J. Rips
Lance J. Rips Northwestern University
Arthur B. Markman
Arthur B. Markman The University of Texas at Austin
Bradley C. Love
Bradley C. Love University College London

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