Former Lab Member

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...

My work lies at the intersection between the humanities and the cognitive and behavioral sciences, combining laboratory experiments with field studies to explore the effects of ritual on the individual and group level. I study effects of music on inter...

I study the social, cognitive, and cultural evolutionary foundations of complex cultural traditions that reliably develop in human societies everywhere, including law, music, story, shamanism, and witchcraft.

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...

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...

My research focuses on the co-evolution of culture and formal institutions. I am particularly interested in the role of kin-network structures on moral behavior and the formation of nation states with well-functioning institutions. My research combines...

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...

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.

My theoretical interests are in empirically examining predictions from cultural transmission theory to determine their validity explaining patterns of cultural transmission in the real-world. I am also interested in how cultural transmission theory might...