@SezDoesScience

Assistant Professor at Georgia State University studying how humans and other primates flexibly ADAPT their strategies to changing demands.

 Atlanta, GA
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Joined October 2016
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🎉Hiring! 🎉ADAPT Lab at Georgia State University is seeking a Research Coordinator to conduct / oversee child and nonhuman primate testing. 📍 Location: Atlanta Campus and LRC💼 Full-time, Benefits Eligible 🕒 Deadline: Until filled (starting ASAP) adaptchildlab.com/researchco…
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City of Atlanta, GA
@CityofAtlanta30 Sep 2024
Statement on Conyers, Georgia Incident: Air Quality Monitoring in Atlanta
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Arber Tasimi
@ArberTasimi23 Sep 2024
I plan to admit 1-2 PhD students to join my lab at Emory (emorymadlab.com). I am especially interested in folks hoping to study (1) infant social cognition or (2) how language/speech influences children's social reasoning (& be co-advised by @lnygaar). Please share!

Morality and Development Lab

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Come join us in beautiful Zurich for a postdoc!!! 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH research.uzh.ch/en/funding/p… @UZH_Science @UZH_ch
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🎉I'm recruiting! GSU's ADAPT Lab is looking for TWO PhD students for Fall 2025 to study how culture and environment shape flexible thinking. Position1️⃣:Cross-cultural focus (USA & Rep. Congo)🗺️ Position2️⃣ :Nonhuman Primate focus 🐒 adaptchildlab.com/news #PhD #Psychology
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Joe Henrich@JoHenrich14 Aug 2024
New manuscript, led by the dev psychologist Ivan Kroupin (@Helen_E_Davis & TC Zeng). Nearly all research on cognitive development (IQ, executive function, memory, etc.) is done in schooled worlds--in communities in which children are raised by people who attended formal schools.
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"...if experience directly influences cognitive development, the relationships observed across cultural settings should also manifest within cultural settings." New comment article out in @NatRevPsych manuelbohn.github.io/paper/B…
Published by Nature Reviews Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00351-8

ALT Published by Nature Reviews Psychology: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00351-8

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MPI-EVA Leipzig@MPI_EVA_Leipzig17 May 2024
Great news! 🥳 Led by the amazing @MatejaHajdi, a new Max Planck Research Group for Hominin Palaeogenomics started @MPI_EVA_Leipzig. 😊😍 Using cutting-edge #aDNA methods, its goal is to shed light on past encounters between hominin groups. @maxplanckpress eva.mpg.de/press/news/articl…
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sheina lew-levy@sheinalew16 May 2024
I am advertising for a postdoc! You get to do cross-cultural research from the comfort of an office, write a lot of papers, and hang out with me! durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
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ESLR Society@ESLRSociety15 May 2024
Our next speaker in the ESLR/@CulturalEvolSoc seminar on Monday, May 20th at 5 PM CET is @RoopeKaaronen and he will present "String figures – a global review reveals patterns of cultural transmission and innovation". Check our website for the Zoom link eslrsociety.com/events/eslr-…
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Really fun opportunity to work on the “Can we live without power?” episode of ARTE’s 42 - The answer to almost everything. Check it out here: arte.tv/.../109.../koennen-w… @ARTEen @ARTEfr @ARTEde
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ATLANTA, I’m coming home! I am thrilled to announce that I will be joining Georgia State University’s Psychology Department as an Assistant Professor this Fall! Can’t wait to be a part of the incredible @GSUPsychology faculty, and @GSU_Research community again.
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I am very excited to share with you the news that our book ‘The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation’ is coming out in exactly 2 months. mitpress.mit.edu/97802625478… 1/5

The Evolution of Techniques

Techniques can either be used in rigid, stereotypical ways or in flexibly adaptive ways, or in some combination of the two. The Evolution of Techniques, edit...

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Are explorative choices suppressed when costs of failure are high? Study spoiler: We found more exploration in variable conditions-to meet the needs of changing environments-but less exploration when the costs of making a bad decision were high. rdcu.be/dCDOj
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@dominik_deffner @TerrenceNeumann @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
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Exploration doesn't simply decrease over the lifespan but is refined as our search heuristics become more efficient! Great study from @TheCharleyWu, Anna Giron & @SimiCiri rdcu.be/dmAgR
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Check out our new registered report in @PLOSONE! Here we will look at how Congolese children’s sharing norms develop throughout childhood and how this differs depending on whether sharing occurs with members of their own cultural group or a neighboring one journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A...

Compared to other species, the extent of human cooperation is unparalleled. Such cooperation is coordinated between community members via social norms. Developmental research has demonstrated that...

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sheina lew-levy@sheinalew15 Nov 2022
Have you ever wanted to come to Durham and do independent interdisciplinary research on childhood, play, learning, and/or culture? Interested in me being your mentor? Then reach out and let's talk about the Addison Wheeler Fellowship! durham.ac.uk/research/instit…
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Very happy to announce two PhD positions to work with me on the very exciting topic of non-human primate culture :-) uu.nl/en/organisation/workin… uu.nl/en/organisation/workin…
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Overcoming cognitive set bias requires more than seeing an alternative strategy-@lrcdaw and my new article showing that participants' failure to use a shortcut was not attributable to an inability to see it but rather to their unwillingness to try it... disq.us/t/4520bn6
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