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Research Interests:

Naomi Quinn received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1971. Her research has pursued the reconstruction, from reasoning, metaphor, and other features of their discourse on it, of Americans' cultural understandings of marriage. Her newest research pursues the effects of early attachment and separation on adult intimate relationships cross-culturally. Her enduring interest is in the nature of culture: its sharedness, force, enduringness, and thematicity. She is part of a current effort in cognitive anthropology to explain these and other properties of culture on the basis of schema theory, and within this framework, to relate culture to language, cognition, motivation, affect, psychodynamic processes, and individual experience. She is currently editing a book manuscript of methods for reconstructing culture from discourse. She is co-author of A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning (1997) and co-editior of Cultural Models in Language and Thought (1987). Her research is described in chapters of these books and in a series of articles, including "Culture and Contradiction: The Case of Americans Reasoning About Marriage," "The Motivational Force of Self Understanding: Evidence from Wives' Inner Conflicts," and "The Cultural Basis of Metaphor." She has, as well, an ongoing interest in anthropological research on gender, reflected in an early review article, "Anthropological Studies of Women's Status" (1977) and a more recent critique, "The Divergent Case of Cultural Anthropology" (2000).

1. Morelli, G; Quinn, N; Chaudhary, N; Vicedo, M; Rosabal-Coto, M; Keller, H; Murray, M; Gottlieb, A; Scheidecker, G; Takada, A. "Ethical Challenges of Parenting Interventions in Low- to Middle-Income Countries." Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology 49:1 (January, 2018): 5-24. [doi]  [abs]
2. Quinn, N; Mathews, HF. "Emotional arousal in the making of cultural selves." Anthropological Theory 16:4 (December, 2016): 359-389. [doi]  [abs]
3. Quinn, N. "Response to Anna Wierzbicka." Ethos 44:3 (September, 2016): 199-201. [doi]
4. Quinn, N. "Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent. Susan Seymour. Nebraska University Press. 2015. xi+423pp.." Ethos 43:4 (December, 2015): E27-E29. [doi]
5. Quinn, N. "Book Essay: Mixed Messages: Cultural and Genetic Inheritance in the Constitution of Human Society." Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 63:6 (December, 2015): 1296-1301. [doi]