🎉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

"...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_…

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.

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

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

For those of you looking for quarantine crafts... #forager #skills

A bit delayed but our study comparing baboons’, chimpanzees’, and humans’ optional-switch cognitive flexibility is out! Are chimps as inflexible as we thought? ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/31424… #cognitiveflexibility #primatecognition @j_watzek @sheinalew

Shout out to @MrsJBurgin ‘s and Mr Bullocks’ Kindergarten class - and Ms Tem’s 5th grade class in Arlington VA, and Mrs LeBlanc’s 6th grade class in Dallas TX for putting together such amazing books for me to bring to Congo this season! @NatGeoEducation

My dad got bored and decided to provide the squirrels with an alternative to the bird feeder...

Extremely excited to be working with this incredible team! @EOCCLab #EVOlearn project

Well. Time to learn the tweeting...😬

#NationalGeographic Young Explorer project..goin to Namibia March 2017 for my PhD research! #science