Representative Publications

• Ross, N.; Medin, D. & Cox, D. (submitted). Epistemological Models of Hunting: Meanings, Values, Goals and Stereotyping. Ethos (Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology)
• Atran, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (in press). The Cultural Mind: Environmental Decision Making and Cultural Modeling within and across populations. Psychological Review. (113 manuscript pages).
• Waxman, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (in press). Folkbiological reasoning from a cross-cultural developmental perspective: Early essentialist notions are shaped by cultural beliefs. Developmental Psychology. (46 manuscript pages)
• Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Cox, D. & Atran, S. (in press). Why folkbiology matters: Resource conflict despite shared goals and knowledge. Accepted pending revisions, Human Ecology. (35 manuscript pages).
• Burnett, R.; Medin, D.; Ross, N. & Blok, S. (in press). Ideal is Typical. Canadian Journal of experimental Psychology. (21 manuscript pages).
• Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Atran, S. et al. (2006). Folkbiology of Freshwater Fish. Cognition, 99, p.237-273.
• Ross, N. & Medin, D. (2005). Ethnography and Experiments: Cultural Models and Expertise effects elicited with experimental research techniques. Field Methods, 17(2), p.131-150.
• Ross, N.; Barrientos, T.; Esquit-Choy, A. (2005). Triad Tasks, a multi purpose tool to elicit similarity judgments: The Case of Tzotzil Maya Plant taxonomy. Field Methods, 17(3), p. 269-283.
• Atran,S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2004.). Evolution and Devolution of Knowledge: A Tale of two biologies. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society, Vol. 10(2):395-420.
• Ross, N.; Medin, D.; Coley, J. & Atran, S. (2003.). Cultural and Experiential Differences in the Development of Folkbiological Induction. Cognitive Development, Vol. 18:25-47.
• La Torre Cuadros, M. & Ross, N. (2003). Secondary Biodiversity: Local perceptions of Forest Habitats among the Maya of Solferino, Quintana Roo, Mexico. Journal of Ethnobiology, 23(2), p. 287-308.
• Ross, N. (2002). Cognitive Aspects of Intergenerational Change: Mental Models, Cultural change and Environmental behavior among the Lacandon Maya of Southern Mexico. Human Organization, Vol. 61(2):125-137.
• Medin, D.; Ross, N.; Atran, S. et al. (2002). Categorization and Reasoning in relation to Culture and Expertise. The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol.41:1-41.
• Atran, S.; Medin, D. & Ross, N. (2002) Thinking about Biology. Modular Constraints on Categorization and Reasoning in the Everyday Life of Americans, Maya and Scientists. Mind & Society, Vol.3:31-63.
• Atran, S.; Medin, D.; Ross, N. et al. (2002). Folkecology, Cultural Epidemiology, and the Spirits of the Commons: A Garden experiment in the Maya Lowlands, 1995-2000. Current Anthropology,43(3):421-450.
• Atran, S., Medin, D., Ross, N., et al. (1999). Folkecology and commons management in the Maya Lowlands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U.S.A., 96, 7598-7603.
• Ross, N. (1997). La Expulsi n de Los Ladinos de San Andr s Larra nzar analysis de un discurso en Tzotzil-Maya. In: Annuario del Centro de Estudios Ind genas San Crist bal de Las Casas, 4, p. 119-161.
• Ross, N. (1995). Lokale Reaktionen auf das Problem von Landknappheit; die Blumenindustrie von Zinacant n, Chiapas. In: Kritische kologie,Vol.12/13 (3), pp.14-22.
• Ross, N. (1994). Die Entwicklung der Blumenindustrie in Zinacant n. In: Zeitschrift f r Ethnologie, Vol.119, pp.59-73. Berlin.
• (Fall 2006). Medin, D., Ross, N. & Cox, D. Culture and Resource Conflict: Why Meanings Mater. Russel Sage: New York. (250 manuscript pages)
• (2004). Culture and Cognition: Implications for Theory and Method.Thousands Oaks. (202 pages).
• (2001). Bilder vom Regenwald. Mentale Modelle, Kulturwandel und Umweltverhalten bei den Lakandonen von Mexiko. Muenster. (290 pages).
• (1997). Nutz Lok el li Kaxlane. Die Vertreibung der Ladinos von San Andr s Larra nzar, Chiapas, Mexico. Muenster. (224 pages).