What Are Dual Process Models? Implications for Cultural Analysis in Sociology

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fact that, conveniently enough, this arbitrary convention still left the first author slot to be occupied by the more (institutionally) senior member of the group. In spite of that, this paper would never had come to fruition if it was not for Dustin Stoltz's vision, perseverance, and hard work (especially when it comes to assembling the citation data) and as such he deserves special thanks. Dustin was the first one to "see" a paper where the first author just saw a set of smart points usable to impress students in a seminar context. Dustin herded all of the cats, and made the seemingly quixotic attempt to write a seven-authored theory piece seem like a breeze. Of course, it was the intellectual input of all authors that ultimately made the paper more than the sum of its separate parts although we will spare you tired emergence analogies.

Fast or Slow: Sociological Implications of Measuring Dual-Process Cognition

“…1 See Lizardo et al (2016) for a broad review of several dual-process theories from cognitive and social psychology that are especially relevant for the sociological study of culture.…”

“…Several scholars have used dual-process frameworks to back their empirical and theoretical claims (Cerulo 2010;Escher 2013;Lizardo et al 2016;Martin and Desmond 2010;Miles 2015;Srivastava and Banaji 2011;Vaidyanathan, Hill, and Smith 2011), while others have called the sociological significance of dual-process theories of cognition into question, critiquing their practical application to empirical cases (Berezin 2014;Jerolmack and Khan 2014;Pugh 2013;Wuthnow 2011). One major limitation in this debate, however, is that sociologists making use of dual-process theories in their work often fail to provide empirical evidence from their own data specifically confirming their dual-process claims.…”

“…Recording the amount of time it takes someone to respond on a task is a proven method social psychologists employ to measure differences between fast and slow cognition but one that has seldom made its way into sociological research. Such measures move sociology towards treating the influence of the dual processes in various domains as an empirical question and away from considering their impact to be an analytical assumption (Lizardo et al 2016).…”

Patient or Physician Centered Care?: Structural Implications for Clinical Interactions and the Overlooked Patient

“…Behaviors flow from an accumulation and standardization of past experiences (Giddens 1984) that over time solidify certain cognitive schemas filling any context with interpretable meaning (Lizardo et al 2016). This contextualized meaning informs the individual as to what role they ought to be playing at any given time.…”

Synthesizing Proximate and Distal Levels of Explanation: Toward an Evolution-Informed Sociology

“…This is because the kind of psychological research that sociologists now utilize tends to rely on the same assumptions of thought, action, and human behavior-broadly construed-that sociologists have on the whole tacitly endorsed since Durkheim's seminal criticism of Kantian categories in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life: Namely, that fundamental categories of perception, though naturally experienced, are socially constructed. This assumption is present in both psychological work on schemas and the dualprocess model which place primacy on the claim that social experience gains unconscious and automatic prominence in individuals' thoughts and actions through the development of mental representations which come to guide perception (see DiMaggio, 1997;Vaisey, 2009;Patterson, 2014;Lizardo et al, 2016). The growing pace at which this view of cognition and action is being utilized by sociologists signals the need for demonstrating how, despite its seeming connection to biological aspects of human behavior, it is closer in kind to a specific branch of social psychology which actively rejected biological components of human nature.…”