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Research Assistant in the Social Origins Lab (Cooperation and Social Reasoning in Children)

Jan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

To apply, please fill out this Google form: https://forms.gle/P3za6Er1XdTCzJN88 We address questions about the evolution and development of socio-cognitive skills by comparing humans to other animals (mostly chimpanzees, our closest living relatives) and by studying how children develop. How do children reason? How strongly is reasoning embedded...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

Lead Research Assistant in the Social Origins Lab (Cooperation and Social Reasoning in Children)

Jan Engelmann - Professor, Psychology

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs     Location: On Campus

To apply, please fill out this google form: https://forms.gle/3JBREzYm2rGJoALy7 By thinking together, human beings achieve things that are impossible for our primate relatives. In the long term, this is facilitated by cumulative culture: our capacity to absorb and transmit information through subsequent generations. Within each generation, this iterative...

 Education, Cognition & Psychology   Social Sciences

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