People

Tanya Broesch

Assistant Professor

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...

Sarah Brosnan

Professor

My research interests lie in the intersection of complex social behavior and cognition. More specifically, I am interested in mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in nonhuman primates from an evolutionary...

Patrick Burns

Associate Research Scholar

My research interests are computational philology and natural language processing with an emphasis on historical languages, primarily Latin and Ancient Greek. I received my doctorate from Fordham University in Classics in 2016 and have been active since...

Jean-Paul Carvalho

Associate Professor

Matthew Cashman

Houlden Fellow

I study information transmission via culture, and I do it with tools I've developed for measuring the flow of memes through minds. These tools are quantitative (in that we end up with bits and so have a common currency), content-agnostic (so we don't have...

Joey Cheng

Assistant Professor

My work focuses on the emotional underpinnings of status hierarchies. I believe that a set of human emotions - pride, humility, respect, and admiration - evolved under a larger psychology designed to facilitate cultural learning processes. While cultural...

Maciek Chudek

Postdoctoral Fellow

Post Doctoral Scholar at the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University I use the tools of developmental and social psychology - typically: experiments with children (3- to 5-year-olds) and adults - to test the predictions of...

Cammie Curtin

Lecturer

I am interested in understanding how human cultural practices evolve and, relatedly, how they shape psychology and behavior. My current work examines how social norms and institutions– such as those governing kinship, economic exchange, and community...

Taylor Davis

Assistant Professor

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...

Helen Davis

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Research scientist at the Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University CEO of One Pencil Project Lab-related topics: Formal education, cognitive abilities...

Jennifer Devereaux

Lecturer

My research sits at the intersection of Classics, philosophy, and cognitive science, examining how predictive models shape knowledge, embed bias, and regulate behavior in both ancient and algorithmic systems.

Joseph Dexter

Data Science Fellow

A computational biologist by training, I have broad interests across data science, and I am particularly enthusiastic about research that brings together traditionally quantitative and qualitative disciplines. To that end, most of my research is...