I study how features of contemporary industrialized societies, in contrast to our hunter‑gatherer past, shape young people’s social worlds, coming‑of‑age experiences, and mental health, with an eye toward improving how we support adolescents and young...
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...
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...
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...
Had you met me 10 years ago, I would have probably told you that all I wanted to do with my life was become a Rabbi. Despite these ambitions, I have opted to pursue my fascination with religions, religious thought and behaviours from within the frame work...
Ph.D. Candidate in Evolutionary Anthropology, University College London
Gul Deniz Salali was a visiting master's student at the Culture, Cognition and Coevolution Lab. During this final phase of her master's, she conducted experiments on the imitation of...
