People

Martin Lang

Researcher

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...

Jonathan Lanman

Assistant Director

Jonathan Lanman was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Coordinator at the Centre of Anthropology of Mind at the Univesrity of Oxford and a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology at UBC. He taught as a Departmental Lecturer for the Institute of Social...

Stephen Laurence

Professor

Kristin Laurin

Assistant Professor

Kristin was a graduate student at the University of Waterloo, and spent the last few months of her degree visiting the Psychology department at UBC. In her research, she seeks to investigate the emergence and maintenance of broad belief systems such as...

Liz Losin

Assistant Professor

Miriam Matthews

Behavioral & Social Scientist

Behavioral & Social Scientist, Faculty Member, Pardee RAND Graduate School Miriam Matthews was a post-doctoral researcher with the Centre for Anthropology and Mind at the University of Oxford. Her research involves applying social psychological models to...

Rita McNamara

Lecturer

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...

Cristina Moya

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Davis I research how humans adapt to culturally-structured environments, particularly in the domain of social behavior. To this end I focus on two lines of work: 1) How do people process...

Raphael Mu

rmu@fas.harvard.edu

PhD Student (G1)

I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens...

Damian Murray

Assistant Professor

My primary research interests focus broadly upon how ecological variables influence cross-cultural differences and social behaviour. Disease, for example, has ubiquitously posed a threat to humans throughout their history. It's therefore worth considering...

Michael Muthukrishna

Associate Professor

My research focuses on answering three broad questions: (1) Why are humans so different to other animals? (2) What are the psychological and evolutionary processes that underlie culture and social change, and how is information transmitted, maintained...

Graham Noblit

Post-Doctoral Scholar