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Metacognition refers to our awareness of our own mental processes, such as perceiving, remembering, learning, and problem solving. It is a fascinating area of research for psychologists, neuroscientists, anthropologists, sociologists and philosophers. This book explores the variability of metacognitive skills across cultures, since a persons decision to allocate effort, motivation to learn, sense of being right or wrong in perceptions, memories, and other cognitive tasks depends on specific transmitted goals, norms, and values. Across nineteen chapters, a group of leading authors analyze the variable and universal features associated with these dimensions, drawing on cuttingedge evidence. Additionally, new domains of metacognitive variability are considered in this volume, including those generated by metacognitionoriented embodied practices (present in rituals and religious worship), and culturespecific lay theories about subjective uncertainty and knowledge regarding natural or supernatural entities. It also documents universal metacognitive features, such as childrens earlier sensitivity to their own ignorance than to that of others, peoples intuitive understanding of what counts as knowledge, and speakers sensitivity to informational sources (independently of the way the information is linguistically expressed). The book is important reading for students and scholars in cognitive and cultural psychology, anthopology, developmental and social psychology, linguistics,... | Oxford University Press Metacognitive Diversity Hardcover Book