Graduate Students

Ph.D. Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University College London

Gul Deniz Salali was a visiting master's student at the Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab. During this final phase of her master's, she conducted experiments on the imitation of...

Computer Science Graduate, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As a visiting master’s student, I worked on the phylogenetics of culture. I investigated whether cultural practices (such as religion, government, food preferences, etc.) can be properly studied using...

I hail from Toronto, Canada where I studied Commerce and Finance, Economics, and Psychology at the University of Toronto. During my spare time I meddled around in emotions research with Drs.Stephane Cote and Julie McCarthy and their graduate students at...

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University

My most long-standing general theoretical interest is in the implications of evolution for human thought and behavior.  What began as an interest in the evolution of moral behavior has now transformed...

Dr. Tanya Broesch was a graduate student in the Cognition and Development program in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. She graduated from St.F.X. University in 2001, was a CIPA funded Coady Intern for 2001-2002 in Kenya – at which time she...

I came to UBC with a joint BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Between my time at Wash U and UBC, I spent a year as the lab manager for Karen Wynn's Infant Cognition Center at Yale University. In my work, I am...

I come from the deep woods of New England, where I completed my undergraduate training in Psychology and German Language and Literature at Colby College. After a year teaching English as a Fulbright Teaching Fellow in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, I...