An Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Adaptations of Social Cognition Testing: A Systematic Review

Bourdage, Renelle; Narme, Pauline; Neeskens, Raquel; Papma, Janne; Franzen, Sanne

doi:10.1007/s11065-023-09616-0

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“…Using the TANGO-CC (or any other task) in a new community requires sensitivity to the specific context, piloting, and, most importantly, the involvement of researchers or research assistants from the specific community. Bourdage et al (2023) pointed out a major challenge with adapting social cognition tasks to diverse communities: the number of world cultures is vast, and communities are constantly changing. Therefore, a promising approach might be to provide tasks with a modular system where components can be modified (i.e., building block structure).…”

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“…From a psychometric perspective, the situation looks dire. Studies on social cognition with US-American and European samples rarely report psychometric information (for a review, see Beaudoin et al, 2020), and the picture further deteriorates when we look at cross-cultural social cognition tasks (Bourdage et al, 2023;Hajdúk et al, 2020;Waschl & Chen, 2022). Thus, it is already challenging to find reliable and valid tasks that have measurement sensitivity to detect individual differences within one community, let alone tasks that do so across different communities.…”

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Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC

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Bednarski,

Dzabatou

et al. 2024

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Cross-cultural studies are crucial for investigating the cultural variability and universality of cognitive developmental processes. However, cross-cultural assessment tools in cognition across languages and communities are limited. This paper describes a gaze following task designed to measure basic social cognition across individuals, ages, and communities (TANGO–CC). The task was developed and psychometrically assessed in one cultural setting and, with input of local collaborators, adapted for cross-cultural data collection. Minimal language demands and the web-app implementation allow fast and easy contextual adaptations to each community. The TANGO–CC captures individual- and community-level variation and shows good internal consistency in a data set from 2.5- to 11-year-old children from 17 diverse communities. Within-community variation outweighed between-community variation. We provide an open-source website for researchers to customize and use the task (https://ccp-odc.eva.mpg.de/tango-cc). The TANGO–CC can be used to assess basic social cognition in diverse communities and provides a roadmap for researching community-level and individual-level differences across cultures.

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confidence: 99%