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Designing simulation-based experiences (SBE) that address bias requires an understanding of evidence-based bias mitigating strategies to accurately identify critical actions and performance measures. However, mitigating bias strategies have their own set of ambiguities. Through the lens of applied behavioral and cognitive science, this paper presents an interdisciplinary framework on “perspective-taking” that can be used to explore mechanisms of implicit bias, bias mitigating strategies, and practical applications that can be incorporated into simulation-based experiences. By analyzing the interconnections between attention, judgment, and the reconstruction of experience, we specify at least two strategies for implicit bias SBE. We propose that attention-directing strategies can be incorporated into scenario design through: “Cognitive Recreation” (CR), with a focus on mirror neuron activation in recreating others’ experiences; and “Emotional Distance Reflection” (EDR), with a focus on minimizing emotional bias, for example, egocentricity bias in the emotional domain (EEB). We specify CR and EDR structure and application in the Keyser-Gilbert Framework.

Conservation scientists increasingly seek to find ways to implement their research for improved policy and practice. However, such efforts may be ineffective, or even counterproductive, if they are based on outdated models of science communication and behavioral change. Insights from fields that study how information is processed in the brain, how and why humans make decisions and take action, and how change spreads across social networks can support and improve existing efforts to translate conservation research into practice and policy. While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions are based on unrepresentative samples of the world’s population. A new wave of cross-cultural cognitive science has sought to remedy this with studies that are increasing in scope, scale, and visibility. Here, I review the state of this new wave of research. The portrait of human cognition that emerges is one of variations on a theme, with species-typical capacities shaped by culture and individual experience. The new wave has expanded our understanding of processes underlying human variation and cumulative cultural change, including mechanisms of social learning and cultural transmission. Less consensus has been reached, however, on the cognitive foundations of human nature. The promise of cross-cultural cognitive science will not be fully realized unless we continue to be more inclusive of the world’s populations and strive for a more complete cognitive portrait of our species.

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Journal of Annals of Behavioural Science