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...
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...
I am interested in the evolution of cognition and culture across species. Most recently I have focused on vocal behaviour in dolphins and narwhals, looking to understand the size and functions of their communicative repertoires. My current aim is to use...
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...
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...
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...
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...
