🎉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/researchcoord

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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!

Come join us in beautiful Zurich for a postdoc!!! 🤩 @APE_Group_UZH

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@UZH_Science @UZH_ch

🎉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

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.

"...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/Bohn_et_…

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/art…

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/careersection/…

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-se…

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.../koe… @ARTEen @ARTEfr @ARTEde

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.

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.
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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

@dominik_deffner @TerrenceNeumann @MPI_EVA_Leipzig

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

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/articl…

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!

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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 :-)

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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