People

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...

Tommy Flint

Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Graduate Student

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...

Brett Hathaway

PhD Student

During my undergraduate degree, I studied the social, cultural, and biological factors that influence cognitive abilities such as attention and emotional learning. After receiving a BA in Psychology, I became interested in the neurobiological mechanisms...

Steve Heine

Professor

Kevin (Ze) Hong

Assistant Professor

Liwen Hou

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Northeastern University. My research focuses on ways of using computational methods and large corpora to study language change over time. More broadly, my interests are in Computational Linguistics and Natural...

Daniel Hruschka

Associate Professor

My work asks how we as humans make our culture and how culture makes us human. How does our culture influence the way we face tough ethical decisions or deal with serious illness? How do we transform culture by the force of both our best efforts and our...

Tiffany Hwang

Operations Coordinator

In 2018, I earned a B.A. in Psychology from University of California, Los Angeles. During this time, I completed a senior honors thesis through the Psychology Departmental Honors program that investigated how Cervical Dystonia patients perceive vertical...

Myriam Juda

Research Psychologist

The origin of our big brain and sophisticated cognitive abilities remains an evolutionary puzzle. The social theory of intellect from the 1960s proposed that social demands drove the evolution of primate intelligence, challenging the then traditional view...

Max Kleiman-Weiner

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ivan Kroupin

Postdoctoral Fellow

The structure of human cognition is underdetermined by our genetic makeup to a unique degree - evident from our species' unparalleled diversity of cognitive and behavioral repertoires. It follows that determining which repertoire an individual human ends...